“And everyone's reading, you have to read, you can't be on the tube without reading, reading is very important. You get on on the morning and every single person is reading the Metro. Everyone, everyone. [imitates line of people reading newspaper] Why doesn't one person just read it to the carriage?”

“Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read… if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.”

“If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”

“I've just been reading -- stuff to make your hair curl -- you go in that toilet -- that's the sort of stuff people read -- not this sort of thing -- don't you feel out of touch? Does this stuff make money? I bet you're the only person to have read this book -- but I bet you every man in this restaurant has had a read of that stuff in there… makes you think, doesn't it?”

“Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.”

“No one can imitate Dunsany, and probably everyone who's ever read him has tried.”

“Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.”

“Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”

“I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that”

“Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read-ultimately you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.”