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“I was asked to do a reading of 'G.B.F.' and I loved the script. I thought it was one of the most amazing things I'd read, but it took a year to get a green light for production.”

Years Light Reading Green Scripts Productions Amazing Things Most Amazing Green Lights

Author:Sasha Pieterse

“As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless series. But in the end I became totally fed-up with all these sub-Tolkien rip-offs because they all end up doing the same old things and there's no rigour to it.”

Years Children Book Ends Reading Fantasy Series Endless Feds Phases Rip Fed Up Fantasy Books Old Things Goblin Rigour Same Old Thing

Author:Jonathan Stroud

“For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I read tons of books on that train; I loved it.”

Years Long Book Reading Train Brooklyn Manhattan

Author:Elizabeth Strout

“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.”

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Author:Kerry Washington

“The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as an adult.”

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Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed.”

Author:Stephen King

“it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.”

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Book:Northanger abbey

Source: Northanger abbey

“It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.”

World Years Reading This World Limits Take Me Indispensable

Book:Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)

“With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of wonder, the same feeling, the same magic, that they got in reading the classic fairy tales as children.”

Giving Years Children Feelings Reading Chance Wonder Magic Tales Classic Fairy Fairy Tale Stardust Sense Of Wonder

Author:Neil Gaiman

“The books we read change over the years as new books come out and they change over the grades. Books we are reading in fifth and sixth grade now may have been seventh and eighth grade books in the past, or the other way around.”

Way Years May Has Beens Book Past Reading Grades Fifth New Books Sixth Grade Eighth Grade

Author:Brian J. White

“I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is what's in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or two.”

Years Two Lasts Reading Fiction Stores Sunday Last Year Days Off Love To Read

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“I remember reading about the astounding number of people in this country who die within three years of retiring, which proves to me that if you lose the sense that you are producing or contributing in some way, you literally lose the will to live, and that if you do have a reason to hang on, you will.”

People Ifs Way Years Country Reason Motivational Remember Dies Three Reading Loses Numbers Prove Retiring Three Years Contributing Will To Live Prove To Me

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing a dialogue begun thousands of years before and which he believed would never end.”

Way Writing Years Book Ends Reality Reading Talking Conscious Lays Core Dialogue Reading Books Continuing Writing A Book Book Reading Book Writing Visceral Borges

Book:With Borges

Source: With Borges

“I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years.”

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Author:Charles de Lint

“My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: "The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world . I'm in it.”

Source: Mud & guts: a look at the common soldier of the American revolution

“We build our personalities laboriously and through many years, and we cannot order fundamental changes just because we might value their utility; no button reading "positive attitude" protrudes from our hearts, and no finger can coerce positivity into immediate action by a single and painless pressing.”

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Book:Full House

Source: Full House

“The result of your fifty or sixty years of religious reading in the four words: 'Be just and good,' is that in which all our enquiries must end.”

Years Ends Reading Religious Results Four Fifty Sixty Enquiry

Book:Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American

Source: Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American

“It was not a choice of writing or not writing. It was a choice of loving my life or not loving my life. To keep writing was always a first priority.... I worked probably 25 years by myself.... Just writing and working, not trying to publish much. Not giving readings. A longer time than people really are willing to commit before they want to go public.”

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Author:Mary Oliver

“I have been reading Madame Roland's memoirs and have come to the conclusion that she was a very over-rated woman; snobbish, vain, sentimental, envious - rather a German type. Her last days before her execution were spent in chronicling petty social snubs or triumphs of many years back. She was a democrat chiefly from envy of the noblesse.”

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Author:Madame Roland

“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.”

“Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading The Yellow Wallpaper.It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.”

People Years Reading Crazy Driven Treatment Yellow Altered Specialists

Book:Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist

Source: Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist

“I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out of all the books that there were to read in the library. I was keen on reading stuff that took me to other places.”

Years Book Three Reading Stuff Fiction Fantasy Science Fiction Library Ran Three Years

Author:Terry Pratchett

“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.”

“Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years old, reading Jules Verne or H. G. Wells, and have fallen asleep.”

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Author:Stanislaw Ulam

“My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and the Koran. I was reading comic books too.”

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Author:Chris Abani

“We knew the time would come that we'd have to step down because we'd been winning Oscars for 15 years. I discovered this one day when I got home, my mother was reading a newspaper and she said, 'Again? What are you doing in the papers?' And I realized if my mother thought that of me, what would my enemies think?”

Ifs Thinking Years Said Home Mother Reading Winning Steps Enemy One Day Paper I Realized Newspapers Oscars Papers

Author:Ferran Adria

“I had to share a room with my sister, who is five and a half years older than I am. We didn't get along well, and I felt that I had no privacy. So books were my privacy, because no one could join me in a book, no one could comment on the action or make fun of it. I used to spend hours reading in the bathroom -- and we only had one bathroom in our small apartment!”

Years Wells Book Action Used Reading Fun Felt Hours Rooms Half Five Share Privacy Comment My Sister Apartment Bathroom Half A Year

Author:Gail Carson Levine

“I tend to believe that computers are drawing kids -- and adults -- away from reading purely because they provide an alternative, vast source of spare-time amusement and entertainment. I recently heard a frightening statistic: there are less than one million true readers in this country (those who read every day instead of one book per year on a beach). Terrifying.”

Years Believe Book Country Kids Reading Millions Heard Source Reader Computer Adults Entertainment Drawing Alternatives Beach Frightening Spares Amusement Spare Time

Author:Tim Lebbon

“I decided I don't want to go for the top job now. I could be working for another 25 years and I'd like to be reading bedtime stories to my children for another two or three years.”

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Author:Yvette Cooper

“Reading the features you would get the impression that this year's crop of rods will allow you to cast from here to eternity, with a rod so light you need to tie it to your wrist to stop it blowing away.”

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Author:Tony Bishop

“To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behaviour of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind what it is one needs to know.”

Thinking Knows Needs Years Mind Kind Reading Effort Talking Activity Mathematics Busy Math Mathematical Contemplation Reasoning Behaviour Simplest Newton Not Talking Calculating

Author:George Spencer-Brown

“The Christians think I am making a mistake by not trying the New Testament and meeting Jesus. The Jews tend to think I am making a mistake by reading without support from educated people. After all, there is 2,000 years of scholarship about the book, they say, so it's perverse of me to ignore it.”

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Author:David Plotz

“I'm 52 years old, which means I'm of an age where my reading habits are more or less set. I read plenty of stuff on line but I rely on pretty traditional sources. I'm a newspaper reader, whether in hand or on my iPad.”

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Author:Michael Wilbon

“I gave my heart to Jesus when I was five-years-old and since then it's been a special relationship. To me it's not a religion; it's just talking to God, reading his word, and doing my best to honor him in everything I do.”

Years Heart Reading Jesus Talking Five Special My Heart Honor Five Years Five Year Olds Talking To God Special Relationship

Author:Bethany Hamilton

“It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I read so slowly that I am always on the smart book three years after everyone else has finished.”

Years Long I Can Book Three Reading Smart Finished Three Years Boast I Can Read Hoover

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be a different place.”

Ifs Years Book Different Country Would Be Reading Brain Weight Book Reading Different Place

Author:Patricia Schroeder

“I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways.”

“For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good?”

Years Looks Reading Brain Blow Magazines Beauty Magazines

Author:Jamie Lee Curtis

“The fame of a battlefield grows with its years; Napoleon storming the Bridge of Lodi, and Wellington surveying the towers of Salamanca, affect us with fainter emotions than Brutus reading in his tent at Philippi, or Richard bearing down with the English chivalry upon the white armies of Saladin.”

Years Reading Grows White Emotion Battle Fame Army Bridges Towers Battlefields Tents Chivalry Wellington Brutus Saladin

Book:Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

“I did a weird thing when I was about 24. For four years I had written quite a lot of poetry, and I started reading through it and thought some of it was really good. So I burnt it all.”

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Author:Cliff Curtis

“Reading is the subtle and thorough sharing of the ideas and feelings by underhanded means. It is a gross invasion of Privacy and a direct violation of the Constitutions of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Age. The Teaching of Reading is equally a crime against Privacy and Personhood. One to five years on each count.”

Years Mean Ideas Feelings Age Reading Five Teaching Crime Direct Thirds Constitution Five Years Privacy Subtle Fourth Gross Fifth Invasion Violation Thorough Personhood Invasion Of Privacy

Author:Walter Tevis

“Over the years, he [Everett Dirksen] developed a style of infinitely subtle fustian, whose effect can still be remotely approximated by sipping twelve-year-old bourbon, straight, while reading Dickens aloud, in a sort of sepulchral purr.”

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Author:Lance Morrow

“I love doing the readings. The readings are the fun bits... The readings are probably the things that actually keep me going on these. If I couldn't do the readings, I wouldn't do the [signing] tours. I get to stand up there and read to a bunch of adults who in many cases nobody's read to in years, since they were about five. They just squat on the floor. That's enormously enjoyable.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction. I usually have three or four things that are open on my desk, on my bed, on audiobook in the car.”

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Author:James Patterson

“That happened when I was a freshman in high school. The guy reading it [the Bible] was dating my older sister. I thought he was the cutest thing that had ever happened in Nashville. He was nine years older than me and I thought, 'Mimi, I hate to do this to you, but I'm going to steal this guy away.' So I went to this Bible study thinking I was going to make this guy fall in love with me. I was fourteen. Hey, you know. But I was so overwhelmed by what they were talking about at this Bible study. I became a very serious, committed Christian.”

“I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.”

Thinking Writing Years Book Reason Order Reading Periods Love Of Reading

Author:Philippa Gregory

“I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad.”

Trying Years Made Book Reading Quitting Reading Books I Quit Clemson

Author:Jonathan Hickman

“I began writing books after speaking for several years and I realize that when you have a written book people think that you're smarter than you really are if I can joke. But it's interesting. People will buy your book and hire you without reading the book just because you have a book and you have a book on a subject that they think is of interest to themselves or e to their company.”

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Author:Brian Tracy

“For many years I was trying to find answers only through books but then I realized that basically, life is about experience and the thing that you have to do is experience life instead of only reading about it. Reading is very important, but it's not enough. After reading, you have to take some decisions in your hands and move forward and be the human being that you are, and then going and meeting people and work.”

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Author:Paulo Coelho

“Perhaps the most remarkable thing I found about the Bible was how flexible it is. Here we have a book written 3,000 years ago, with bizarre stories, peculiar laws, erratic deity, and yet we are able - through argument, selective reading, and desire - to find a powerful framework of laws and moral reasoning that have built a very successful society. So this Bible, for all its oddities and flaws, serves us beautifully after all these years.”