Reading Quotes

Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and perhaps it is my avid reading that has been my faith all along.

And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never would have something you recognize immediately.

I rely on Taegan Goddard's Political Wire for straight, fair political news, he gets right to the point. It's an eagerly anticipated part of my news reading.

I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book.

According to a new study, our email is not as safe as we thought. How do they know this? They've been reading my email.

It's true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.

I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on.

As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.

I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.

I do remember reading the script of 'The Nightmare Fair' and looking forward to doing it.

I'm always reading. I have four books on my nightstand right now. The same is true with writing, I tend to work on several varying projects at once.

My wife and I just started listening to the late Beethoven Quartets together, an activity I recommend for all married couples, but that doesn't really mean that I'm finished reading.

I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.

I love reading about the sea. I love reading about it a lot more than actually being on the sea, when you think about it.

Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour.

Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.

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.

If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble.

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made.

The saying "the cherry on top" is only a good metaphor if the person listening or reading actually likes cherries on top of their ice cream.

The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing

Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

I'm reading Joe Eszterhas biography; it's fabulous. Every time he made a movie, he fought with the director or the producer over the ending.

Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.

As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision

I'm reading George Saunders's story collection, "Tenth of December." He was my mentor at the University of Syracuse. The stories are mind-blowing like everyone says.

My whole life is reading tabloid magazines. It’s really sad, because that’s what my show is all about — what is going on with celebrities. So I have to know everything.

When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent.

For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.

The act of reading is so intimate that readers are unpredictable.

I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.

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.

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

The secret to speed-reading is moving your lips faster.

If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.

We never tire of the friendships we form with books.

The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.

There's no better teacher for writing than reading... Get a library card. That's the best investment.

I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine.

I remember reading Disturbia, one of the first scripts I ever got, and I go "Pfft, who wants to make a movie about a guy in a house?"

The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.

I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.

As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.