I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put... →
Robert Adamson
Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in... →
I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred.
Adele
I'm very confident. Even when I read people saying horrible stuff about my weight.
I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first read... →
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I've always been curious about how much of our cultural baggage we bring to what and how we read. I suspect we bring a lot, although we like to... →
I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
Kate Adie
I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.
Aravind Adiga
Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.
I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.
Ferran Adria