Also during his college years, having lost his religious faith, he read intensely in German philosophy and literature, and afterward he traveled to Germany for a year of study in philosophy, physics, and law.
But you should also take advantage individually of opportunities to read intensely and discuss what you read with other writers, to hear and talk with visiting writers, and perhaps to work on a literary journal, do archival work with literary texts, or develop skills in print and digital production.
She seems merely bemused by the fallacy that whoever scripts a comic must be its lone author: "I do realize just from doing stuff where you're meeting a more general audience, people who aren't involved with comics, reading them intensely or making them, it really is quite mysterious, the process".
Similarly, Martin Bernal's loudly and heatedly contested multi-volume Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization is by far the most widely read, and intensely debated, work in this vein to which many have turned.
And I had been reading Yeats more intensely at that stage, middle Yeats especially.
Boyd writes that as a high-school student he began reading Nabokov "so intensely that his way of seeing the world partly shaped mine".
You've been reading American poetry intensely for a long time, and now you're a central figure in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University.
Even when I see someone on the subway or gym intensely reading gossip rags as if they were studying for some unethical exam, I cringe.
In the most luxurious examples, painstakingly illustrated folios transformed reading and prayer into intensely visual and sensual experiences.
