Nell Freudenberger Quotes

I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.

There are things I read doing research, and there are certain books and writers I just love to read. There are books of Brian Morten's that I love, for instance. There's a wonderful book by an Australian writer named Helen Garner called 'The Children's Bach,' and I just love the way she uses language in it.

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

To be transported into another world is my very favourite part of reading.

I'm always reading a novel. If it's good, I remember why I love my job.

To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

The very best of all Merwin: I have been reading William since 1952, and always with joy.

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote about his own experiences.

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books.

The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.

I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.