“I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lot of my time reading. I've been working since I was 17, so that's sort of been my life.” KindLittlesReadingBitsCollegeLittle BitMy TimeLonerWeirdo Author:Zosia Mamet
“My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some sort of gift and when it came time to try to find a publisher I had a little bit of an "in" because I had his agent I could turn to, to at least read my initial offerings when I was about 20. But the only problem was that they were just awful, they were just terrible stories and my agent, who ended up being my agent, was very, very sweet about it, but it took about four years until I actually had something worth trying to sell.” WritingTryingYearsLittlesStoriesProblemTurnsReadingFatherBitsFourSweetGrewTerribleLittle BitGrew UpSellsAwfulAgentsFour YearsOfferingPublishersInitialsWriting And ReadingVery Sweet Author:Anne Lamott
“I really love doing nothing. I really love just being at home and taking a couple of days, you know, doing nothing. You know what I mean? Just getting up, being around the house, going outside the back yard, coming back in; I really like to do nothing because I travel a lot. There's a lot of travelling. There's a lot of on the phone all the time. There's a lot of looking at papers and reading things and so you don't want to read magazines and you don't want to do anything; you don't want to read books, you just want to just kind of shut down a little bit.” KnowsWantKindMeanLittlesBookHomeReadingHouseBitsCouplePaperLittle BitPhonesMagazinesJust BeingYardsPapersComing BackDoing Nothing Author:Jennifer Lopez
“The good thing about life is that you can research anywhere you are. I'm just constantly gathering little bits of information all the time. I'm always grabbing something out of the headlines, out of the news or reading a book about astronomy and just trying to figure out how to get my head around the facts but the bigger stress is trying to connect those facts to normal life situations and our relationship with God.” TryingLittlesBookFactsLife IsReadingBitsSituationFiguresInformationNormalLittle BitNewsResearchBiggerStressGood ThingsAstronomyOur RelationshipGatheringHeadlinesRelationship With GodNormal LifeGrabbing Author:Louie Giglio
“You work with every actor differently. It's like if you're a mother, if you have children, some children need more discipline. Other children you back off of a little bit and let them be. It's the same way with actors. Some actors need a lot of hand holding. Other actors like to be let be and you let them go. Some actors like to be nudged just a little bit. Some actors don't mind line readings.” IfsWayNeedsMindChildrenLittlesHandsMotherReadingActorsBitsLinesDisciplineLittle BitHand Holding Author:Rob Reiner
“The Bible is forbidding when you start to read it. The language is odd. The stories start and stop herkily-jerkily. The characters behave in inexplicable ways. It takes a little bit of time to get into the rhythm of the book. I found reading the first 15 chapters of Genesis very very difficult. Once I got past there, I loved reading, and found it very easy. When you get used to the Bible, it becomes thrilling to read (like any great book - I just had exactly the same experience with the Odyssey).” WayFirstsLittlesBookCharacterStoriesPastUsedReadingFoundLanguageEasyBitsDifficultLittle BitRhythmOddBehaveChaptersThrillingGenesisGreat BookInexplicableOdyssey Author:David Plotz
“I can never tell what's going to end up being on an album until it's all finished. I'm reading the news everyday, and sometimes I just have to be away from it. And that ends up writing the songs for me a little bit.” WritingLittlesI CanEndsSometimesSongReadingBitsLittle BitNewsEverydayAlbumsFinished Author:Jack Johnson
“I think vampires have gotten maybe a little bit silly in the last years where they're all wearing crushed velvet and reading poetry and making sweet love to their victims, you know, it's not really all that scary.” ThinkingKnowsYearsLittlesLastsReadingBitsSweetLittle BitVictimScarySillyVampireLast YearCrushedVelvetSweet LoveReading Poetry Author:Josh Hartnett
“Being producer you're still going to have to sell somebody who's going to give you the money on the idea and everything like that. But it does give you a little bit more control if you're thinking in that creative process; it gives you more control to tell the story you want to tell rather than sort of just reading a script that somebody else wrote and says, "Yes, please, you can hire me for this job." So it's a little bit more hands-on, a little bit more closer to the heart.” IfsThinkingWantGivingHeartLittlesDoeStillsIdeasStoriesHandsJobsReadingBitsProcessCreativePleaseLittle BitSellsScriptsProducersCreative Process Author:Mekhi Phifer
“We started out on the Internet, so I've been reading what people had to say about stuff since we were getting mean comments on iFilm, before we even had our site going. People are really, really rough on the web - that's their right, that's the whole point of it - but sometimes it can be a little bit brutal.” PeopleMeanLittlesSometimesWholeReadingStuffBitsInternetLittle BitRoughCommentBrutalSite Author:Andy Samberg
“Actually, I'm reading a lot of my scripts. When I'm working on something, it's hard to find time. You're always prepping new material. You don't want to be buried in a book. It splits your focus a little bit.” WantLittlesBookHardReadingBitsFocusMaterialsLittle BitScriptsBuriedSplits Author:Justin Theroux
“I'm reading a lot of different books, but I always think I have to switch it up a little bit. It's like food - everything in moderation, same with my books, same with my reading. You read books that are good for you and you learn a lot of stuff, then you read 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' which is like candy.” ThinkingLittlesBookDifferentReadingStuffBitsLittle BitFiftyShadeModerationGreyCandyFifty ShadesShades Of GreyDifferent BooksEverything In Moderation Author:Shay Mitchell
“I've always been more natural at doing hosting things: reading teleprompters, taking direction and ask-ing questions... I'm actually able to perform a little bit.” LittlesAbleReadingAsksBitsNaturalLittle Bit Author:Vinny Guadagnino
“The fans [of Vampire diaries] that we have now are the people who will watch it any day of the week. So, my first instinct was a little bit of an ego tap, but the second I processed it, I was fine. The only weird thing will be maybe not having as many people live tweeting because they're actually out doing something more interesting on Friday night. I'm not going to sit at home, reading Twitter on Friday night.” PeopleFirstsLittlesHomeNightReadingBitsInterestingWatchesWeekFansFineEgoLittle BitInstinctVampireFridayDiariesWeird ThingsFriday NightDays Of The WeekVampire Diaries Author:Caroline Dries
“It is a bit more challenging for the simple fact that now the stories I am writing are relying more on my imagination than on facts, more on research than on memory; so it is basically a slower writing process, more reading, more exploring. On the other hand, this approach is a little bit relieving too, since many times while writing [How the Soldieer Repairs the Gramophone] I felt too close and equal to my character.” WritingLittlesCharacterFactsStoriesHandsReadingFeltBitsProcessImaginationChallengesMemoriesSimpleEqualApproachLittle BitResearchExploringWriting ProcessMy ImaginationReading More Author:Sasa Stanisic
“I always get a little bit scared reading reviews.” LittlesReadingBitsLittle BitScaredReviews Author:Gugu Mbatha-Raw
“When Denzel [Washington] first called me on the phone after we'd just done a reading of the film ["Fences"]. He said, "Oh Viola it was so good, wasn't it?! I'm gonna tell Russell [Hornsby] to lose a little bit of weight and..." I was just sitting there thinking, why is he calling me? And I told him, "Denzel don't you tell me to lose weight!" He said, "I'm not telling you to lose weight! I can't believe you would say that."” ThinkingFirstsBelieveLittlesSaidI CanDoneFilmReadingBitsLosesCallingLittle BitSittingWeightPhonesFenceLose WeightViolaDenzel Author:Viola Davis
“[Reading Swing Time] made me a feel a little bit like when I used to read David [Foster] Wallace. Like, "I can't play that game. I wish I could, but I can't do it."” FeelsLittlesMadeI CanPlayUsedReadingGamesWishBitsLittle BitSwings Author:George Saunders