I Quotes
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“I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.”
“I read. And you know 'no offense' means 'I am about to be or have just been fucking offensive.”
Source: The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
“I read Animal House and I said, "I will burn down a house to be in this. I have to be in this movie." I read 1941 and I went, "Well, if Steven Spielberg likes it..." But it just wasn't on the page. It was a very big, unwieldy thing, and there were so many characters. It was fun to shoot, but I didn't know what the core of it was.”
“I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material.”
“I read anything I could get my hands on: science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers. I even became hooked on the Bantam reprints of the old pulp novels from thirties and forties: Doc Savage, The Shadow, The Avenger.”
“I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.”
“I read as many books about the psychology of a psychopath as I could and I researched what exactly happens to soldiers.”
“I read as much as I could, but really just spoke to Chris Chibnall and asked all the pertinent questions. That made me feel like we weren't going to do an off-the-peg Camelot, which has been touched upon in many films and TV series before. I really just picked his brain and, in doing so, I got fired up by tackling Merlin in a fresher angle.”
“I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.”
“I read Aschenbach's constant desire to go beyond the works he has already produced to be the counterpart of Mann's deep wish to surpass his previous fiction; sometimes the diaries express this in terms of a dejected judgment that the summit has already been reached.”
“I read assiduously. I kept in touch with my species.”
Source: Sylvia: A Fictional Memoir
“I read at least one periodical every month by a political group I dislike - to keep some sense of balance. The overwhelming stupidity of political movements is caused by the fact that political types never read anything but their own gang's agit-prop.”
“I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world.”
Source: Chinese Cinderella
“I read because one life isn't enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody.”
“I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.”
“I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready”
“I read Betty Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," all of Shirley Jackson's books, which I loved.”
“I read books all the time, I'm always reading. I'm not like somebody that reads really fast or a lot or anything, but I always have a book that I'm reading.”
“I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people.”
“I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.”
Source: Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories
“I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.”
“I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.”
“I read books more than I go out.”
“I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits. I will choose a night with Somerset Maugham or Russell Banks over a crowded bar any day.”
“I read books that say if you want to keep sex hot you tell a person what you want. How do you tell 'em you want somebody else?”
“I read books to read myself.”
Source: The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
“I read books when I have time. I probably spend a third of the time watching TV, and the rest of it is reading, but I read.”
“I read books when I was a kid, lots of books. Books always seemed like magic to me. They took you to the most amazing places. When I got older, I realized that I couldn't find books that took me to all of the places I wanted to go. To go to those places, I had to write some books myself.”
“I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being with you.”
Source: Unspoken
“I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.”
Source: The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art
“I read Butterfly’s Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice—and how all these things are, in time, transformed surprisingly and inevitably.”
“I read Carver. Julio Cortázar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.”
“I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.”
“I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The Emperor's Children,' 9/11 felt to me like a piece of the plot; the novel wasn't wrestling with what 9/11 meant. And 'Netherland' felt the same way. I liked both books a lot but I don't see them as 9/11 novels.”
“I read comic books and stuff but I didn't know a lot about it.”
“I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.”
“I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world.”
“I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.”
“I read continually and don't understand writers who say they don't read while working on a book. For a start, a book takes me about two years to write, so there's no way I am depriving myself of reading during that time. Another thing is that reading other writers is continually inspiring - reading great writers reminds you how hard you have to work.”
“I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on.”
“I read Cynthia's memoir excerpts. Well-written, terse, biting, they centered on the day that her mother committed suicide, when Cynthia was ten years old. I didn't think she'd make much money from it—it was too good, written without an ounce of sentimentality.”
Source: Vladimir
“I read Dad's books like I did before, now things are crystal clear. Lock the door in the bathroom, now I just can't get caught in here.”
“I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.”
“I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)”
“I read each evening, at night and whenever possible during the day when I am traveling. I have always read.”
“I read Eve Ensler and thought it was fabulous. Not only that, but it was really the only thing I could relate to about cancer.”
“I read every biography [of Jackie Kennedy] I could get my hands on.”
“I read every draft of every episode of every series produced at FX.”
“I read every fan forum and every blog, and every message board, and every chat room. I read it all. There's nothing online that I'm not aware of.”
“I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.”