Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
Iain Banks
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
Russell Banks
The future is in photos for social media. More and more people are not reading, so I try to attach a photo to most Tweets.
Tyra Banks
I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties, and his voice spoke directly to me. Nietzsche... →
John Banville
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced... →
Julian Barnes
I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life.
Courtney Barnett
Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
John Barton
Reading should be a repeat performance.
The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.