Clive James Reading Quotations

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

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.

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

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.