“In a sense, journalism can be both helpful and detrimental to a writer of fiction because the kind of writing you need to do as a journalist is so different. It has to be clear, unambiguous, concise, and as a writer often you are trying to do things that are more ambiguous. I find that writing fiction is often an antidote to reading and writing too much journalism.” NeedsWritingTryingKindDifferentReadingFictionClearToo MuchJournalismJournalistHelpfulAntidoteAmbiguousWriting FictionReading And WritingDetrimentalConcise Author:Aravind Adiga
“I'm sitting in the bus station, minding my own business, reading 'Ta-Da!' magazine; a magazine by and for gay magicians, but that's a different story.” DifferentStoriesHumorFunnyReadingMy OwnGaySittingMagazinesStationsBusMagicianOwn BusinessMinding My Own Business Author:Dave Attell
“I often notice how students can gain the capacity to use certain critical methodologies through engaging with very different texts - how a graphic novel about gentrification and an anthology about Hurricane Katrina and a journalistic account of war profiteering might all lead to very similar classroom conversations and critical engagement. I'm particularly interested in this when teaching law students who often resist reading interdisciplinary materials or materials they interpret as too theoretical.” DifferentWarUseMightLawCertainReadingNovelTeachingStudentsMaterialsConversationGainsCapacityAccountsCriticalEngagementClassroomEngagingTheoreticalGraphicHurricanesAnthologyMethodologyKatrinaGraphic NovelsJournalisticHurricane KatrinaGentrificationLaw StudentsInterdisciplinary Author:Dean Spade
“Your inspiration is better if it comes from many different sources and your sensibilities will transform all those influences and inspiration into your own visual world. It's like reading the book instead of watching the movie.” IfsWorldBookDifferentInspirationReadingInfluenceSourceVisualsSensibility Author:Peter Lindbergh
“It wasn't until I started reading the history of religion that I understood that the definition of Christianity has shifted in many different directions over time, and the mainstream view today certainly doesn't have any exclusive ownership of what being a Christian means. Realizing that freed me to use the terminology without needing to be tied down to it.” MeanDifferentUseTodayChristianReadingRealizingViewsChristianityUnderstoodDefinitionsMainstreamTiedOwnershipExclusiveDifferent DirectionsTerminology Author:Tim DeChristopher
“I had no intention of replacing Arnold [Schwarzenegger]. There were a few things that made me want to do the movie. They were the script which had a different direction to it, and it was a chance to do a very different Quaid. I didn't read the short story until I went to college.Reading the story had a different effect on me of how I pictured him to be and the tone of the story was different. In the story, he's a bit more of an everyman.” WantMadeDifferentStoriesReadingBitsChanceEffectsCollegeIntentionScriptsToneShort StoryDifferent DirectionsSchwarzeneggerEverymanQuaid Author:Len Wiseman
“I do a lot of reading on Buddhist philosophy, and a Buddhist nun named Pema Chödrön talks a lot about acceptance. It's one of the main tenets of Buddhism - accepting that what is, is. The root of our suffering is when we just don't want to accept a truth. We want something to be different than it is.” WantDifferentPhilosophySufferingReadingAcceptingAcceptanceBuddhismRootsBuddhistDrsWant SomethingNunBuddhist Philosophy Author:Sara Bareilles
“I read "Milk" and immediately I was very emotional after reading it and then I saw the documentary - the one that Rob Epstein did - and I said that's it. I saw it with my daughter and that was it. This thing is a different thing. It's like I've been offered these kind of superhero movies or "Terminator" or whatever those movies are and I just go ahh.” KindSaidDifferentReadingSawsEmotionalDaughterDifferent ThingsMy DaughterMilkDocumentariesSuperhero Author:Josh Brolin
“It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.” MenShouldMindMadeBookDifferentBodyRememberReadingStrongResultsPowerfulWiseHealthyDinnerLiteracySupperGood FoodMind ReadingGreat ReadingDifferent BooksPowerful Mind Book:Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution in the Years 1804-1806 Source: Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution in the Years 1804-1806
“Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo everything and wait until the end of a season and watch it all over a weekend. For me that's a really satisfying experience, like reading a book.” BookDifferentEndsShowsReadingWaitingWatchesTelevisionSeasonsBasesSatisfyingWeekendDvdsDifferent Experiences Author:Alan Ball
“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 think the ambiguity of similarity and difference is very powerful. It's the same scene in different times of year read across the grid, and, of course, different locations reading vertically. But you can get confused and lost in the series. You force the mind, which is always comparing and contrasting, to stumble ... That ambiguity is very powerful. One is getting lost and refinding oneself.” ThinkingYearsMindDifferentCoursesReadingLostForceDifferencesPowerfulSceneSeriesOneselfCompareConfusedLocationAmbiguityVery PowerfulSimilarityDifferent TimesGridsGetting LostFinding OneselfLost And Confused Author:David Hockney
“It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything. If I could, I'd completely rewrite Fargo Rock City, and every sentence would be just slightly different. In all likelihood, most of them wouldn't be any better. Some of them would just be changed back to whatever form they used to be, before I second-guessed myself the first time.” IfsFirstsBookDifferentWould BePastFormUsedReadingCitiesWrittenCrazyRocksChangedFirst TimeSentencesUsed To BeIf I CouldLikelihoodDrive Me CrazyFargo Author:Chuck Klosterman
“So depending on the day, my schedule is different. But, generally speaking, I get up in the morning, I do a 30 to 45 minute prescheduling of tweets and just seeing if there's anything urgent - do-or-die emails or server outages, stuff like that. Then after that I go to the gym, where I do all my long-form reading - so Instapaper, and all the Kindle books. I go through an embarrassing amount of books per week.” IfsLongBookDifferentFormDiesReadingStuffMorningSeeingWeekMinutesAmountGet UpGymSchedulesEmbarrassingEmailUrgentTweetKindlesServer Author:Maria Popova
“Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.” ThinkingBookDifferentMatterReadingMake You ThinkDifferent Books Author:Gabrielle Zevin
“I believe it's impossible to write good poetry without reading. Reading poetry goes straight to my psyche and makes me want to write. I meet the muse in the poems of others and invite her to my poems. I see over and over again, in different ways, what is possible, how the perimeters of poetry are expanding and making way for new forms.” WayWantWritingBelieveDifferentFormReadingI BelieveImpossibleDifferent WaysInvitesMuseExpandingReading PoetryGood PoetryPerimeter Author:Denise Duhamel
“I'm definitely influenced by lots of different things - from music, from reading, from I don't know... I have a lot of different sources of inspiration that I tap into when I need to get something done.” KnowsNeedsDifferentDoneInspirationReadingSourceDifferent ThingsSource Of Inspiration Author:Marko Djurdjevic