“I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that person doesn't have a Web site. But I think that, to use the Internet in a positive way, to turn people on to reading, is something that authors shouldn't really shy away from necessarily.” PeopleThinkingWayPersonsBookUseWould BeHateTurnsReadingLostVoiceInternetI HateShyCompellingSite Author:Marisha Pessl
“It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy and a few others, have cornered the market on 'offbeat.'” CharacterHateReadingI HateGreenScriptsDescriptionJamieCorneredOffbeat Author:Breckin Meyer
“I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on. For me the best is when your eye goes in a certain point and moves through the composition and then springs out on the dialogue, or gets confused in the image and then goes to the dialogue for an explanation.” LooksEyeMovingCertainHateReadingSpringI HateStuckDialogueComicExplanationConfusedCompositionSticker Author:Denise Mina
“Anyone who says the Backstreet Boys can't sing is crazy. They're probably just reading some highbrow critic who hates anyone the general public embraces. I'm sorry, but those boys sing their butts off. They work hard on their choreography, and on their harmonies. Their tracks are tight and solid. Their songs are musical and memorable.” HardHateSongReadingBoysCrazyHard WorkHarmonyEmbraceCriticsSorryMusicalTrackMemorableI'm SorryChoreographyGeneral PublicBackstreetBackstreet Boys Author:Tony Orlando
“The gift of creative reading, like all natural gifts, must be nourished or it will atrophy. And you nourish it, in much the same way you nourish the gift of writing - you read, think, talk, look, listen, hate, fear, love, weep - and bring all of your life like a sieve to what you read. That which is not worthy of your gift will quickly pass through, but the gold remains.” ThinkingWayWritingLooksBookHateReadingNaturalCreativeGoldRemainsWorthyBook ReadingFear Of LoveNot WorthyAtrophyNatural Gifts Book:The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children Source: The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children
“I don't like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people. I love my home and staying in bed and watching Dancing With the Stars or reading a Danielle Steel novel. I'm kind of boring.” PeopleKindHomeHateReadingStarsNovelBedI HateDancingClubsBoringStayingGoing OutSteelDancing With The Stars Author:Britney Spears
“I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in the living - don't you hate gossips, aren't they too awful? - but avid for any nuggets from the private lives of the dead because that is perfectly respectable, an altogether worthy and informative way of spending one's time.” WayHateReadingInterestIdealsWorthySpendingLike MeAwfulGenreAcknowledgeGossipBiographiesPrivate LifeRespectableAvidInformativeNuggetsLiterary GenreReading Biographies Book:It's only me: pieces from a column Source: It's only me: pieces from a column
“It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the 'Captain Underpants' books too challenging. Don't get me wrong - the humor and ideas are often sophisticated - but the books aren't hard to read. I wanted kids who hate reading to find these books irresistible.” BookIdeasHardKidsWantedUsedHateReadingStuffChallengesForeverDecidedTake MeSophisticatedCaptainsIrresistibleUnderpants Author:Dav Pilkey
“I use music as something from which I obtain some form of - I hate to use the word spiritual - guidance, an awareness of something more than the day-to-day or the petty. I am not reading Emanuel Kant to try to embark on a task of seeing if I can understand myself, what the aesthetic experience is. But I wholeheartedly believe in it, even though I think not too many do nowadays.” IfsThinkingTryingBelieveI CanUseSpiritualFormHateReadingSeeingAwarenessTasksI HateGuidanceAestheticDay To DayPettyWholeheartedlySpiritual Guidance Author:Richard Meale
“That happened when I was a freshman in high school. The guy reading it [the Bible] was dating my older sister. I thought he was the cutest thing that had ever happened in Nashville. He was nine years older than me and I thought, 'Mimi, I hate to do this to you, but I'm going to steal this guy away.' So I went to this Bible study thinking I was going to make this guy fall in love with me. I was fourteen. Hey, you know. But I was so overwhelmed by what they were talking about at this Bible study. I became a very serious, committed Christian.” ThinkingKnowsYearsSchoolChristianGuyHateFallReadingTalkingStudyHappenedSeriousHigh SchoolDatingI HateFalling In LoveCommittedNineStealingHeyOverwhelmedThis GuyBible StudyFourteenNine YearsNashvilleFreshmanHey YouOlder SisterMimiCutest Author:Amy Grant
“I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted that her children read. To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.” ChildrenAgeTodayMotherHateReadingTermTechnologyTelevisionI HateErasLeisureConsumedScarceDefaultLeisure Time Author:Jimmy Buffett
“I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.” WantedHateReadingI HateShortsCasinosBahamas Author:Tony Parsons