At the same time, reading an action script... It makes me wonder. Was The Matrix a good script? I don't know.
~By Shane West ~
I'm good at reading people.
~By Al Alvarez ~
Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
~By Brad Henry ~
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
~By James Joyce ~
I recommend the art of slow reading.
~By Amos Oz ~
It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element.
~By Irvine Welsh ~
When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.
~By C. S. Forester ~
To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.
~By Robert B. Laughlin ~
Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
~By R. A. Salvatore ~
Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.
~By Gilbert Murray ~
Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.
~By Jimmy Buffett ~
My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.
~By Steve Nash ~
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
~By Sarah Orne Jewett ~
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
~By Edith Sitwell ~
A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.
~By Robert Rauschenberg ~
The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation.
~By Leslie Charteris ~
I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it.
~By Theodore Sturgeon ~
I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
~By Jackson Browne ~
I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
~By Kate DiCamillo ~
By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.
~By Jo Brand ~
I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
~By James Madison ~
Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
~By Giorgos Seferis ~
My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.
~By Rihanna ~
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.
~By Harold Bloom ~
The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.
~By Alan Dundes ~
Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.
~By Joseph Epstein ~
Like, every couple of months you read, they rewrite, you come back in, they've animated more stuff - they usually videotape you while you're reading it - so they'll incorporate some gestures and some facial expressions into it.
~By John Goodman ~
I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.
~By Russell Banks ~
It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
~By Kate DiCamillo ~
It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.
~By Mary Archer ~
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
~By Antonin Artaud ~
I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.
~By Pete Fountain ~
It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.
~By Rachel Zoe ~
Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic.
~By Ryan White ~
Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it's just fictional stories for entertainment.
~By Holly Valance ~
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
~By Richard Darman ~
I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
~By Pablo Neruda ~
All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.
~By Penelope Lively ~
The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.
~By Vince Vaughn ~
I think that's unjustified criticism. We have had a number of measures in place in this country for several years to mitigate the possibility of mad cow spreading in this country. We have found a single case.
~By Ann Veneman ~
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
~By Alan Dean Foster ~
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
~By Washington Irving ~
My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert.
~By Rick Moody ~
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
~By Vernon Lee ~
I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years.
~By Chester Brown ~
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
~By Beverly Cleary ~
We all were there for the readings, the screen tests, and we knew. We knew Dustin was the guy right away.
~By Buck Henry ~
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
~By William Styron ~
I try to deal with my serious reading before work.
~By Donna Shalala ~
I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet.
~By Guy Johnson ~
I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.
~By Thomas Perry ~
I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
~By V. S. Naipaul ~
But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes.
~By Griffin Dunne ~
The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.
~By Serge Schmemann ~
I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.
~By Jennifer Connelly ~
It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.
~By Louise Jameson ~
I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.
~By Thomas Sydenham ~
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
~By Diane Arbus ~
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself.
~By Michael Stipe ~
Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.
~By Augusten Burroughs ~
I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.
~By Diane Wakoski ~
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.
~By Julian Assange ~
People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what they were reading was bought and paid for with their tax dollars.
~By George Miller ~
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
~By Bill Watterson ~
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.
~By Mary Wortley ~
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
~By Beverly Cleary ~
I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.
~By Fay Godwin ~
Rereading, we find a new book.
~By Mason Cooley ~
I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.
~By Evan Hunter ~
I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.
~By Jose Saramago ~
'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.
~By Robert B. Parker ~
I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.
~By Fred Saberhagen ~
It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
~By Gary Oldman ~
I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.
~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory.
~By Chaim Potok ~
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom.
~By Eric Holder ~
Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
~By Helen Gurley Brown ~
I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.
~By Antonia Fraser ~
I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away.
~By Henry Fonda ~
I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.
~By Kevin J. Anderson ~
We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small.
~By Ann Veneman ~
Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?
~By John W. Foster ~
Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.
~By Robert T. Bakker ~
Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.
~By Howard Nemerov ~
Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.
~By Shel Silverstein ~
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
~By Ben Hecht ~
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.
~By George Muller ~
I went into this job to do plays, but that's here for 10 weeks, and the rest of the year I do a lot of other things-the administrative work of planning, reading plays.
~By Michael Ritchie ~
I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.
~By Jeremy Northam ~
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
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