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- Nov 07, 2020
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
- Feeling
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Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.
- People
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And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
- Matter
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I attended school regularly for three years. I learned to read and write. 'Lamb's Tales' from Shakespeare was my favourite reading matter. I stole, by finding, Palgrave's 'Golden Treasury.' These two books, and the 'Everyman' edition of John Keats, were my proudest and dearest possessions, my greatest wealth.
- Extending
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I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale as a fellow. I spent two years there. After that, George Gale made me literary editor of 'The Spectator.'
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't stutter when I was reading lines in a script. When I got away from myself, I didn't have that problem.
- Book
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Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.
- Evolution
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Charles Darwin got his theory, his notion of natural selection, evolution, and so did its independent discoverer, Alfred Wallace, from reading Malthus.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley on the same day in 1968. I was sixteen at the time. Very exciting. They were reading at Armagh. One of my teachers brought me to meet them, introduced me, and I became friends with them.
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I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.
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