Divide Quote by Bettany Hughes

I'm trying to take more nothing time - and that means sacrificing doing. It's partly to do with age, partly to do with the…

— Kate Atkinson

I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it.

— Lynn Redgrave

When I'm not writing music, I'm playing guitar, or reading philosophy. So all I have left is just an hour or two for Claudia…

— Richard Pinhas

Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing.

— Michael Dirda

When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.

— Gail Tsukiyama

My vocation to preach on paper.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I do a lot of readings.

— Paul Muldoon

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

— T. S. Eliot

I spend 12 hours a day reading on most days of the year.

— Italo Calvino

I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a…

— Virginia Woolf

I do three things. I do teaching, I do conducting and I do playing. And each one of those sort of helps the other.

— Itzhak Perlman

I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged…

— Abraham Verghese