“I really, really wanted to write. I loved language. I loved literature. I loved reading. I never read a foreign language, I'm afraid, but I loved Flaubert. I loved the 19th-century classics. I love Thomas Hardy. I wanted to be a goof on a bus, but I wanted to write more.” WritingWantedReadingLiteratureLanguageCenturyBus19th CenturyHardyForeign LanguageGoofs Author:Robert Stone
“I remember that even my first impression of Italian cinema was pictures by paparazzi because my mom was reading all of these trash magazines with paparazzo pictures.” FirstsRememberReadingMomMy MomImpressionMagazinesCinemaItalianTrashPaparazziFirst Impression Author:Wim Wenders
“I do believe in reading signs if they're really obvious to you. Things happen. Someone will say something to you today in the morning and then later on that day someone will mention the same thing and then the next day someone will mention it again. There's a reason why three people have said something within twenty four hours.” PeopleIfsBelieveSaidReasonHappensTodayThreeReadingNextHoursMorningFourTwentiesObviousThings HappenReason WhyNext Day Author:Eric Bana
“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.” BookReading Author:Christopher Owens
“The joy of reading can take you so many different places. In addition to intelligence and stretching your mind, I just think reading is so crucial in terms of being a well-rounded person.” ThinkingMindWellsPersonsDifferentJoyReadingTermCrucialStretchingDifferent PlaceWell RoundedJoy Of Reading Author:Gayle King
“I very much like doing voiceovers, and I also like doing readings. I do books on tape and stuff. I have fun with it.” BookReadingFunStuffHaving FunTape Author:Anjelica Huston
“I've made movies that were adaptations and I've been kind of frustrated by the process because, you know that old axiom, 'It's never as good as the book'? It's often true because nothing competes with your own imagination. When you're reading a book and you imagine something in your head, nothing's going to compete with that.” KnowsKindMadeBookReadingProcessImaginationImagineFrustratedAdaptationAxioms Author:Amber Heard
“I don't think there's anything that I would really baulk at doing on-screen. I don't think so. I've got certain pet peeves about writing... my pet peeve about reading scripts is when they give you a line reading and there'll be a line but next to your character's name it'll say 'very angry'. But I'm like: "Well, I'll decide that actually!" So, there's little things like that. That's a slight pet peeve.” ThinkingGivingWritingWellsLittlesCharacterCertainReadingNextNamesLinesAngryScriptsScreensPetLittle ThingsPeevesPet Peeve Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever penned this body of work was firstly well-travelled, secondly a multi-linguist and thirdly someone who had an innate knowledge of the inner workings and the mechanisms of a very secret and paranoid Elizabethan court. Edward de Vere ticks those three boxes and many more. William of Stratford gave his wife a bed when he died [his second best bed].” WellsBodyThreeReadingSecretWifeBedDiedCourtBoxesMechanismInnateParanoidTickSecond BestLinguistsElizabethanReading Shakespeare Author:Rhys Ifans
“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
“I was not a comic book reader, but my son is. My son wasn't really interested in reading books, which was hard for me because I love to read. It just didn't come naturally to my boy. So we kind of found comic books because they were fascinating to him. They were great stories.” KindBookHardStoriesReadingFoundBoysSonReaderComicFascinatingMy SonReading BooksComic BookMy BoysLove To ReadBook Readers Author:Virginia Madsen
“I started out in life as a poet, I was only writing poetry all through my 20s, it wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them.” WritingReadingNovelSeriousPoetProseDetectivesWriting PoetryWriting Poems Author:Paul Auster
“One of those things where immediately when you started reading it, you knew it was something special and then the more you read, the more it surprised you, and the more you realized it was devoid of stereotype .” ReadingSpecialStereotypeSomething Special Author:Ellen Page
“es, I spend a lot of time in Reading because we live in Oxfordshire and so we're always just in and out of each other's houses. It's very much the family that it always has been. But there's no comparison with Hollywood as such.” Has BeensReadingHouseHollywoodComparison Author:Kate Winslet
“You liked the freshness of it, c'mon try it" and I said "oh God, I read it three of four times" and finally I said "all right, I want you guys to organize a reading and I want you to be there to see how terrible this is not going to work at all", so we had a table like this, and read the script, and it was just great.” WantTryingSaidGuyThreeReadingFourTerribleTablesScriptsI Want YouOrganizeGoing To WorkFreshness Author:Jeff Bridges
“I don't read reviews. Just because that is something that's directly connected to my job. I'm doing this because I love it, not because I'm necessarily looking for approval or anything like that. To me, it seems that reading reviews - whether they're good ones or bad ones - can only sort of force the person to divorce themselves from the reality of what it is they do for a living. So I don't read reviews.” PersonsRealitySeemsJobsReadingForceConnectedDivorceReviewsApproval Author:Kate Winslet
“On a daily basis, my home life is very simple. I spend about 2 hours every morning reading the newspaper. As my two assistants will tell you, I don't come to work in the mornings, for two reasons. First, I want to be informed - that means I go through The New York Times every day, and then I watch some news on television. The second is, mornings are the best time to communicate with my clients abroad.” WantFirstsMeanTwoReasonHomeLife IsReadingHoursSimpleWatchesMorningNew YorkTelevisionNewsBasesCommunicateNewspapersEvery MorningClientsNew York TimesAssistantsBest TimesHome Life Author:I. M. Pei
“I do like to keep abreast of what the hardcore vocal members of the comics-reading audience are talking about on Internet message boards, but there are so few of them, as a percentage of the buying audience, that I can't allow their opinions to dictate story direction.” I CanStoriesReadingTalkingOpinionAudienceInternetMembersMessagesBoardsBuyingVocalPercentagesHardcore Author:Grant Morrison
“I was reading a lot of Thomas Jefferson at the time, and Jefferson said that every 20 years, if one party has stayed in power, it's your obligation as an American to vote the other party in.” IfsYearsSaidReadingPartyVoteObligation Author:Dennis Hopper
“I keep reading about people who want to be famous - it's not that they want to be great songwriters or great actors, they want to be celebrities. That is scary because you can be famous doing some really stupid things.” PeopleWantReadingActorsStupidScarySongwritersGreat ActorsStupid ThingsReally Stupid Author:Barry Manilow
“Everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking. Busking, you learn people, you learn about reading people. You learn about reading the atmosphere of the street. If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. It's almost like you get to know personality types, just by watching people walk past. You get a sense for things.” PeopleIfsKnowsLongStillsEnoughPastReadingWalksCitiesStreetsLike YouTypePersonalitySingingAtmosphereSongwritingPersonality TypesBusking Author:Glen Hansard
“If you look back in history, as the barbarians were invading the gates of Rome, people were consulting fortunetellers and worrying about the end of the world and all sorts of other apocalyptic notions. When the tsars were finally overthrown, they were all reading tarot cards even as the revolutionaries were banging at the gates.” PeopleIfsWorldLooksEndsReadingWorryNotionCardsRevolutionaryGatesRomeEnd Of The WorldBarbariansApocalypticConsultingBangingTarotInvadingTarot Cards Author:Matt Taibbi
“If I'm reading a book that doesn't leave me with questions, moving questions, that I feel confronted with, then for me it's a waste of time. I don't want to read a book that simply confirms what I already know.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsBookMovingReadingWasteWasting TimeLeaving Me Author:Michael Haneke
“The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days... I said, 'If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.'” IfsWantSaidTwoBookWantedThreeReadingCrimeConvincedPunishmentFeverCrime And Punishment Author:Paul Auster
“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
“I think people probably lie about not reading their own reviews. I don't think that's true - I've been to a lot of music festivals and hung out backstage, especially in the past couple of years, and I see all these bands reading about themselves in newspapers. So I don't think that's true.” PeopleThinkingYearsPastLyingReadingCoupleBandNewspapersReviewsHungFestivalsMusic Festival Author:Lily Allen
“To me, there's a huge difference between criticism and reviewing. I really love reading good criticism of television and film. To me, a critic is someone who analyzes a show, describes it, talks about the people in it, puts it in historical context of other shows like it, compares it and stuff, and then talks about the intent of the show and whether it failed or didn't.” PeopleShowsFilmReadingStuffDifferencesTelevisionHugeCriticismHistoricalCriticsCompareLove Of ReadingHistorical Context Author:Louis C. K.
“To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.” IfsKindTwoCertainReadingNovelFocusWeekDevotionConcentrationTwo Weeks Author:Philip Roth
“It's very intuitive, the way that I approach my work. I only buy something that has a pulse. I may not know how I'm going to use it, but I know it has a pulse and it has multiple readings - if I shift it one way or another, it can be read this way or it can be read that way, but both readings are critical and very much ground the work.” IfsKnowsWayMayUseReadingKnow HowApproachCriticalOne WayMultipleIntuitivePulse Author:Nick Cave
“I'm not a good reader. I had to take remedial reading in school. I was a slow reader and therefore it's tough for me to stay interested in things long enough, I've read, probably, since college maybe 10 books, which is disgusting.” LongBookEnoughSchoolReadingCollegeReaderToughDisgusting Author:Bruce Dern
“I would not like to direct, I would be one of those terrible directors who can't help line reading the actors their lines, because I would just want to be doing their parts.” WantHelpingWould BeReadingActorsLinesTerribleDirectorsDirect Author:Ruby Bentall
“Things maybe take longer usually when it comes to TV - especially network TV. There are usually multiple levels that you have to go through in terms of the casting director, the producers, the studio, the network, reading with other people.” PeopleReadingTermLevelsTvsDirectorsStudiosProducersMultipleCastingCasting Directors Author:Andre Holland
“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
“I barely read. I'm not a good reader at all. Rather than reading, I used to sit in front of the TV and watch black-and-white cowboy movies. I'm a painfully slow reader. It's really bad as an actor, because you have to read a lot of scripts. It takes me like an average of three hours to read a script, which is pretty poor.” UsedThreeReadingActorsBlackHoursWhitePoorWatchesFrontsTvsReaderAverageScriptsTake MeBlack And WhiteCowboyCowboy Movie Author:Will Poulter
“The best scripts I read are usually pretty - they move really quickly, there's not a lot of exposition in between all of what's happening, so you can really just flow with the lines, and you're reading and it has a momentum and you understand it emotionally.” MovingReadingLinesHappeningsFlowScriptsMomentum Author:Kirsten Dunst
“I wish I was making shoes instead of reading or watching movies, which is what I do in my free time.” ReadingWishShoesFree Time Author:Manolo Blahnik
“I wanted to be a poet. I had a really romantic idea about what that would mean. My parents knew some poets, and I liked how they dressed and acted, but I didn't really acknowledge that I only liked reading some bits of poetry while I was peeing or something.” MeanIdeasWantedReadingBitsParentPoetAcknowledgeReally Romantic Author:Lena Dunham
“I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings - everything was a gesture, everything was conscious.” IdeasReadingActorsLinesConsciousGesturesPreconceived Ideas Author:Dennis Hopper
“To travel best requires some time preparing for your visit to a particular location - that you don't travel anywhere without spending a few nights reading about the culture and history of the place you are visiting. This is what most of us don't do - we fling ourselves on an exotic destination hoping that someone will tell us what we are looking at, but by that time it's too late, and all the lectures and tour guides simply add to our confusion.” NightCultureReadingParticularLateAddSpendingGuidesConfusionToo LateDestinationLocationPreparingLecturesVisitingExoticFlingTour Guides Author:Arthur Frommer
“Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.” LittlesStillsStoriesReadingActorsEnjoyVoiceSolitaryTheatricalSolitary Life Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“If you take text and image and you put them together, the multiple readings that are possible in either poetry or in something visual are reduced to one specific reading. By putting the two together, you limit the possibilities. Text and image don't always work together in the way music and song lyrics become part of each other.” IfsWayTwoTogetherSongReadingPossibilityLimitsVisualsWorking TogetherMultiple Author:Richard Hell
“What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.” WritingJobsReadingStuffChallengesFictionToo MuchRelaxationDay JobsReading Fiction Author:Charles Stross
“I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!” KnowsNeedsYearsWellsTwoWantedJobsReadingStuffFieldsHugeIndustryTradeSellsPressesLeavingBritishListsSettingSettingsReleaseAgentsAgencyEditorsClientsJournalNew AgePress Release Author:Charles Stross
“Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.” IfsWritingTryingReadingFictionNovelWrittenStyleFiguresSpeechRecognitionProseCrapWriting FictionSpoken Word Author:Charles Stross
“While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.” WritingBookReadingNovelGenreReading BooksDuration Author:Charles Stross
“Well, I'm very much a literary person. And my fashion always tells a story somehow. I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.” NeedsWellsLooksPersonsBookStoriesLastsReadingFashionBoringMagazinesFashion Magazines Author:Vivienne Westwood
“I was not a vampire or werewolf fan at all. I'd never even heard of the series. I auditioned for the role, and as soon as I got it, I started reading the books. I'm not a reader, but I really did get hooked on them.” BookReadingRolesHeardFansReaderSeriesVampireWerewolfHooked Author:Taylor Lautner
“When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very fond of mysteries.” ReadingMy OwnPleasureFictionMysteryMaterials Author:David McCullough
“Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.” MadeReadingLiteratureDifferencesMy OwnProfoundMy Own Life Author:Katherine Paterson
“Teachers have almost stopped reading aloud to their classes because of the pressure of testing and tight curricula, but it is the books we read together and talk about together that bring us closer together.” BookTogetherReadingClassTeacherPressureTestingReading Aloud Author:Katherine Paterson