“Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie.” IfsKnowsWantShouldPersonsReadingRight Person Author:Jodie Foster
“No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.” KnowsBookKidsTodayReadingEventsPaperCurrentsAppetiteLove Of ReadingNever Stop LearningGed Author:Michael J. Fox
“I know not everyone starts out reading high literature. If you read enough you might be drawn to some other things, so maybe those vampire books are what they call 'gateway books.' I just coined that term. I don't know if there's a thing called 'gateway books.” IfsKnowsBookEnoughMightReadingLiteratureTermVampireGateways Author:Josh Radnor
“I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.” ThinkingKnowsBookIdeasSeemsReadingTechnologicalAdvancementTechnological Advancement Author:Garth Stein
“You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.” KnowsWritingBookEndsReadingReading Or Writing Author:Lynda Barry
“I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important.” ThinkingKnowsWayMeanImportantEndsHappensReadingNovelMiddleBuiltAnnaPredictability Author:Scarlett Thomas
“About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, 'Let's do this!' So I'm co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me.” KnowsWritingYearsStoriesCoursesReadingProjectsYears AgoScriptsProducersExhaustedScreenplaysScreenwriters Author:Kerry Washington
“We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.” IfsKnowsShouldReadingWonderfulExerciseTreated Author:Walter Dean Myers
“There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why aren't people reading 'Midnight's Children?' Nobody knows why these phenomenons happen but they're great.” PeopleKnowsWellsChildrenBookHappensReadingWrittenCodeGiantsPhenomenonMidnightNobody KnowsWell WrittenDa Vinci Code Author:Denise Mina
“I like the Twilight series. I thought it was fun. I don’t like vampires personally, I don’t know any; but you know my granddaughter was reading it and I thought, well this looks like fun so I read that.” KnowsWellsLooksReadingFunSeriesVampireTwilightGranddaughterTwilight Series Author:Mitt Romney
“Whenever I hear the epistles of Paul read out loud in the liturgy, I am filled with joy... If I'm regarded as a learned man, it's not because I'm brainy. It's simply because I have such a love for Paul that I have never left off reading him. He has taught me all I know.” IfsKnowsMenJoyReadingLeftTaughtFilledLoudLiturgy Author:Charles W. Freeman, Jr.
“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