Clive James Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.

  Clive James

  Reading, Writing, Interesting

• Reading and writing... are exciting. The most exciting things I can think of. And now, as I reflect... I have to say that I've been lucky in that I'm amused by what I do - sufficiently amused.

  Clive James

  Art, Reading, Writing

• My wife and I just started listening to the late Beethoven Quartets together, an activity I recommend for all married couples, but that doesn't really mean that I'm finished reading.

  Clive James

  Couple, Reading, Mean

  "Clive James: life through the prism of illness". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2015.

• I love reading about the sea. I love reading about it a lot more than actually being on the sea, when you think about it.

  Clive James

  Reading, Thinking, Sea

  "Summer Series: Clive James, in the face of death". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. December 21, 2015.

• Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour.

  Clive James

  Reading, School, Glamour

  "Clive James on turning his ‘last time on earth’ into a writing wellspring". Interview with Ellen Rolfes, December 3, 2013.

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