“When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't been around enough - novelists never go anywhere. Once I discovered true books about real things - books like 'How To Run a Company' - I stopped reading novels.” KnowsFeelsBookRealEnoughRunningReadingCompanyNovelHavensNovelistsReal ThingsReading Novels Author:Peter York
“You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes, or you can just say, "The hell with you! I know what I'm doing. If you don't yet, it's because you haven't given me an attentive reading.” IfsKnowsTwoEyeChoicesReadingGivenHellHavensCriticismCriticalAwfulReformPanicFranticGlareTwo Choices Author:Saul Bellow
“I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years now. I feel guilty beyond words about these things. For example, when we're backstage and the lights go out and the manic roar of the crowds begins, it doesn't affect me the way in which it did for Freddy [sic] Mercury who seemed to love, relish in the love and adoration from the crowd, which is something I totally admire and envy.” WayFeelsWritingYearsWellsLightReadingFeltHavensExampleListeningCreatingCrowdsEnvyAdmireGuiltyExcitementAdorationRelishMercuryReading And WritingManicSuicide NoteCreating Music Author:Freddie Mercury
“I try to just be open to what the next experience is and how it makes me feel, just reading a project, or trying to get involved with a project, or thinking about a project, and what particular emotional flavor that brings. To me, it's never really about planning the next thing, or the career arc. It's about investigating how I feel, from project to project, and finding things that I haven't explored and what that would be like.” ThinkingFeelsTryingWould BeReadingNextCareersHavensEmotionalParticularInvolvedFindingsProjectsPlanningFlavorGet InvolvedArcsInvestigatingFeels Just Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor
“But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything's handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture, the sound, the scenery, the atmospheric music in case you haven't understood what the director's on about... The creaking door that tells you to be stiff. You have to imagine it all when you're reading.” DifferentMatterReadingSoundCasesImagineDoorsHavensTvsDirectorsUnderstoodCinemaPlatesSpoonsScenery Author:Daniel Pennac
“... when I finish reading People, I always feel that I have just spent four days in Los Angeles. Women's Wear Daily at least makes me feel dirty; People makes me feel that I haven't read or learned or seen anything at all.” PeopleFeelsReadingFourHavensDirtyLos Angeles Book:Scribble Scribble Notes on the Media Source: Scribble Scribble Notes on the Media
“A lot of times, you're not necessarily off the page because you haven't been able to take the time to prepare a character. It's very easy to find even great actors reading it more like a reading. Things aren't really coming alive yet, even though you know they will.” KnowsCharacterAbleReadingActorsEasyAliveHavensPagesGreat Actors Author:Gus Van Sant
“My children haven't read 'Winter Journal'. They have read some of my work, but I really don't foist it on them. I want them to be free to discover it in their own good time. I think reading an intimate memoir by your father - or an intimate autobiographical work, whatever we want to call this thing - you have to come at it at the right moment, so I'm certainly not foisting it upon them.” ThinkingWantChildrenMomentsReadingFatherHavensWinterMemoirMy ChildrenIntimateGood TimesJournalRight Moment Author:Paul Auster
“I wish I had time to do more reading, but I just haven't had much time. But I still find time for writing. I've always preferred writing over reading, even though those things do go hand in hand. But when I do have time, even if it's not writing music, just writing in general - ideas and stories and things like that.” IfsWritingStillsIdeasStoriesHandsReadingWishHavensHand In HandWriting Music Author:Youth Lagoon
“It's funny what [producer Richard Zanuck said about even though you can't quite place when the book or the story came into your life, and I do vaguely remember roughly five years old reading versions of Alice in Wonderland, but the thing is the characters. You always know the characters. Everyone knows the characters and they're very well-defined characters, which I always thought was fascinating. Most people who haven't read the book definitely know the characters and reference them.” PeopleKnowsYearsWellsSaidBookCharacterStoriesRememberReadingFiveHavensVersionsProducersDefinedFive YearsFascinatingWonderlandFive Year Olds Author:Johnny Depp
“Most of Emily's backstory is written out between New Moon and Eclipse. I'm reading them as we're shooting the films. I haven't read Breaking Dawn yet. It's just too crazy. There's too much going on that you need a map. I just try to focus on one movie at a time. When we were doing New Moon press, people were already asking about Eclipse. I didn't read it until I was ready to go, so that it was fresh and I wasn't jumbled with all this other stuff.” PeopleNeedsTryingFilmReadingStuffToo MuchFocusWrittenCrazyHavensReadyMoonAskingPressesShootingDawnMapsEclipseEmilyNew MoonBreaking DawnEmily's Author:Tinsel Korey
“I haven't had a chance to pick up a good book in a long time, because I've been either reading scripts or learning them or writing them. And so, by the time the day is done, I usually just want to click on The Bachelor and fall asleep. But I gravitate toward biographies and things like that.” WantWritingLongBookDoneFallReadingChanceHavensLong TimePicksScriptsBiographiesGood BookClicksBachelors Author:Justin Theroux
“It was by coincidence that I ended up opening my first shop in 1968, and I haven't stopped since. I now find myself trying to do everything. I couldn't live without creating my collections, without writing, drawing and reading. But I couldn't either live without being close to my children on a daily basis and also to my grandchildren, and to all the people I love. I guess I am like every woman today, one who juggles her work and family life.” PeopleWritingTryingFirstsChildrenTodayReadingHavensCreatingBasesDrawingOpeningMy ChildrenCollectionsShopsCoincidenceGrandchildrenFamily LifeMy Grandchildren Author:Sonia Rykiel
“I like reading for things. I've shown up for jobs before where I haven't read for them, and there's something kind of intimidating about that - where the first words they'll hear from me are when they call "action." There's something about actually going in and earning a part and going, like, "Okay, they really liked what I did, and so I'm on the right track."” FirstsKindActionJobsReadingHavensOkayTrackEarningIntimidatingRight Track Author:Luke Grimes