Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started to understand it the ….
I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy..
You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me..
Spending more time with friends and family costs nothing. Nor does walking, cooking, meditating, making love, reading or eating dinner at the table i….
You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts..
It was always 'Cher', I never thought of myself as anything but 'Cher'..
You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down..
The BBC's aim, along with schools, libraries and literacy groups, to involve more people in reading groups is an exciting idea and one that I hope wi….
Avoid such situations in which you are unnecessarily burdened with rubbish. You already have too much as it is, you need to be unburdened of it. And ….
You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus..
We live in a very gynophobic society.
You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect — even on Selena after a very modest quantity. She cast off a….
I will always have a stutter..
Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books..
Just make music; don't talk about politics..
History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, ….
To search for the old is to understand the new..
I'm sure you're always working in your head, but when you're actually physically working, you're in your studio, right? For me, it changes all the ti….
If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed to take your breath away when th….
I like the poem on the page and not at the podium. I like to address the poem in peace and quiet, not on the edge of a folding chair with a full blad….
There are some things that cannot be expressed through words. And that is why we dance..