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“I don't read good reviews. I like to know what percentages are going on. When Sony sends out something saying that people are liking the movie, I like to know that, but I don't actually sit and read the good stuff.”

People Knows Stuff Reviews Percentages Sony

Author:Evan Goldberg

“I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.”

Firsts Made Book Lasts Reading Mistake Horror Firsts And Lasts Exorcist

Author:Dan Brown

“I don't read like other people do - back and forth, across the page. I tend to scan a page at a time.”

People Pages Back And Forth

Author:Jackie French

“I don't read liner notes and stuff, and I don't read articles very often.”

Stuff Notes Articles

Author:Spencer Krug

“I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.”

Book Sports Magazines Awful

Author:Payne Stewart

“I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.”

People Book Fiction My Favorite Dickens

Author:Tom Peters

“I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Writing Looks Matter Liberty Taken Reader Memoir

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world.”

World Want Fiction Scripts

Author:Kirby Bliss Blanton

“I don't read much of anything online.”

Online

Author:Daniel Clowes

“I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.”

Writing Worry Borrowing

Author:Kelley Armstrong

“I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.”

Produce Ears

Author:Erykah Badu

“I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true.”

Speak Shame Embarrassing

Author:Susanna Hoffs

“I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.”

Writing Guitar Wander Guitar Music

Author:James Taylor

“I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.”

Author:Barbra Streisand

“I don't read music; I taught myself guitar.”

Taught Guitar

Author:Beth Orton

“I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?”

Writing Years Wells Long I Can Book Bears Finished Advertising Take Me

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I don't read my own press, so I don't know what's being reported on a daily basis - I only hear about things when they reach a sort of Def-Con status, and my publicist calls me because we have to do some damage control.”

Knows My Own Bases Presses Damage Call Me Publicists Damage Control

Author:Megan Fox

“I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.”

People Years My Own Havens Reviews

Author:Kevin Bacon

“I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.”

Bunch Reviews

Author:Patricia Arquette

“I don't read my reviews, I measure them.”

Book Language Reviews

Author:Arnold Bennett

“I don't read my reviews. Unless I'm unfortunate enough to catch something by accident, which happens, and it's always a bad review. Always, it's amazing. I will be sitting in a café, and I will open a random paper right to the page of the review.... And then you're sucked in and go home and never want to go out again.”

Enough Home Unfortunate

Author:Keira Knightley

“I don't read newspapers in the morning. I take a look at the dailies in the afternoon, but only when I've finished my work for the day. Reading about what is happening in Turkey once again would only be demoralizing for me.”

Looks Reading Morning Happenings Finished Newspapers Afternoon Turkeys Demoralizing

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“I don't read newspapers too much , just because they tend to make me feel I have a political obligation that I think is a distraction from what my political offerings are going to be if I just make my movies.”

Thinking Political Obligation Distraction

Author:Sean Penn

“I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of illusions.”

Believe Literature I Believe Novel Illusion Convince

Author:Sergio Chejfec

“I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone.”

Writing Enough Brain Novel Havens Wide Zone Outgoing Time Zones

Author:Dawn French

“I don't read or write SF for cutting edge ideas; I read and write it for the storytelling, and every story is new. So have I brought anything new to it? Only in so far as no-one before has written about the characters I've invented in their particular situation.”

Writing Ideas Character Stories Situation Cutting Written Particular Edges Storytelling Cutting Edge

Author:Erica Brown

“I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.”

Science Fiction Science Fiction

Author:Jack Vance

“I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're in the middle of putting your work together.”

Writing Together Middle Style Working Together Disturbing

Author:Norman Mailer

“I don't read polls to decide what I'm going to do.”

Polls

Author:John Kasich

“I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I never reread them.”

Attention Special Wit Reviews Masterpiece Eagerness Acumen

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

Source: Strong opinions

“I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.”

Knows Want Process Loses Space Opinion Reviews Persona Manufacturing

Author:Anne Carson

“I don't read reviews any more, but I'm told by my publisher who gives me an account of what people have been writing and it's been a very split kind of response.”

People Giving Writing Kind Has Beens Accounts Give Me Response Reviews Splits Publishers

Author:Paul Auster

“I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.”

Book Literature Change Written Late Too Late Reviews

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head.”

Ifs Bigs Reviews Devastated Big Heads

Author:Kim Cattrall

“I don't read reviews or interviews or anything, just because I'm afraid; If I believed the good, then I'd believe the bad, and there will be bad.”

Ifs Believe I Believe Interviews Reviews

Author:Sia Furler

“I don't read reviews or take any feedback from anyone. Here's the thing: The stories don't even care what I think about them. They don't listen to anybody! My job is simply to describe what I'm shown in my head so that folks who read the books get an idea of what I'm seeing. As long as that happens, I'm doing my job as best I can.”

Thinking Long Book Care Feedback

Author:J.R. Ward

“I don't read reviews, and I don't include the press as part of my priorities or as part of the world that has any validity to what's really important to me.”

World Important Presses Priorities Reviews Validity

Author:Demi Moore

“I don't read reviews, as a rule. I can't, because I can't control myself. But I've heard that [the Duplasses] were happy, so that's good.”

I Can Heard Reviews Because I Can Control Myself

Author:Amanda Peet

“I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.”

Self Values Reading Conscious Reviews Self Conscious

Author:Mary Stuart Masterson

“I don't read reviews.”

Reviews

Author:Andrea Arnold

“I don't read reviews. I haven't read them for probably 30 years. I can't. When they're bad, they're really rough, and when they're good, they're not good enough. You can always find something to stress over.”

Years I Can Enough Havens Stress Rough Good Enough Reviews Not Good Enough

Author:Kevin Bacon

“I don't read reviews. Just because that is something that's directly connected to my job. I'm doing this because I love it, not because I'm necessarily looking for approval or anything like that. To me, it seems that reading reviews - whether they're good ones or bad ones - can only sort of force the person to divorce themselves from the reality of what it is they do for a living. So I don't read reviews.”

Persons Reality Seems Jobs Reading Force Connected Divorce Reviews Approval

Author:Kate Winslet

“I don't read Science Fiction.”

Science Fiction Science Fiction

Author:Brent Spiner

“I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.”

Life Life Is Boring Too Short Life Is Too Short Short Life Boring Things

Author:Gyorgy Ligeti

“I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!”

Men I Can Book Ideas Reading Nations Stuff Letters Voters Qualifications Suffrage Spelling Small Stuff

Author:Sojourner Truth

“I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.”

Novel Fans Nonfiction

Author:Cory Monteith

“I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.”

Thinking Stories Reader Habit Letters Magazines Comment Sections Time Magazine

Author:Joel Stein

“I don't read the Bible as the literal word of God; I don't view Jesus as a God. I've rejected both those statements. I view Jesus as a model for how we should live, and by that definition I do consider myself a Christian.”

Should Christian Jesus Views Models Definitions Statements Word Of God Rejected Literal

Author:Tim DeChristopher

“I don't read the Bible. Not because I don't want to, I just haven't got around to It yet. One day perhaps I'll pick it up and look at It.”

Want Looks Havens One Day Picks

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“I don't read the comments anymore, unless they are moderated. Which is not to say censored, but I don't need to read someone saying, "You're ugly."”

Needs Ugly Comment Censored

Author:Roxane Gay

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