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Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier.

I loved to read and would read anything that roused my interest, whether it was below my age level or above it, even if I could barely make sense of it.

I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.

When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didn't have time.

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

I could read music before I could read.

Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know the feeling of being overlooked.

I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.

I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.

I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.