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I’ve never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.

All the successful personalities had one common element, they all liked reading books.

You want to know what makes me tick, I’ll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called ‘The Hawk’s Nest.’ Nobody entered that...

When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it’s all part...

I have become so used to having people say, ‘We loved your movie’ instead of ‘We read your book’ that now I merely say, ‘Thanks.’

But I honestly don’t read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can’t hear them. If you give...

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she’d read a dozen a month.

Sometimes I read a script and it’s obvious from early on that it’s one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.

I want to celebrate the sadness that makes you feel everything so deeply. I want to throw a party for the wounds that make you so unabashedly human.

Every case involving cybercrime that I’ve been involved in, I’ve never found a master criminal sitting somewhere in Russia or Hong Kong or Beijing. It always ends up that somebody at the company did something...

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English kept them from picking up what I thought were obvious signals.

And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God – as I read in the word, you’re supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on.

I don’t write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am–though I am rather clever and well read as a matter of fact.

I’m not a masochistic reader. If something is just too dense or not enjoyable, even though I’m told it should be good for me, I’ll put it down. That said, most of what I read...

I don’t travel and tell stories, because that’s not the way these days. But I write my books to be read aloud, and I think of myself in that oral tradition.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: ‘I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I’ve never quite sorted them out.’

I read a lot of scripts that I just don’t find very funny.

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.

The real difference between literature and pulp is the kind of emotional responses they elicit. Dan Brown can’t pierce your heart. Patricia Cornwell can’t make you read a sentence twice and then look sightlessly out...

I don’t read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

To me, I read good reviews in lots of papers and bad reviews in lots of papers.

The number of books students read…is among the best indicators of student reading development.

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

You read glowing things and it doesn’t feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone.

And I feel like a real Dad when I read to her at night. She won’t sleep without one story, at least.

ESPN, is having the ability to foretell future outcomes in sports.

Eventually I got the call for ‘Iron Man,’ and I read sides that had nothing to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the...

Take off my clothes and there becomes a man. Take off my skin and there becomes my bones. Break all my bones and there becomes my heart. Smash my heart and there becomes my soul....

Reading a book is a silent conversation between two friends.

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

It’s really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated.

Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they...

I am the alphabet soup of love. Eat me or read me, but don’t feed me to the cats.

I think we’ve probably all read a word that we’ve never heard pronounced out loud, and we try it out in a sentence and fall on our face.

To live, pray. To learn, read. To love, give. To listen, pay attention. But to be wise, apply all that you have acquired

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

There’s always a wine bully. The one person who did read the ‘Wine Spectator,’ who tells you what to drink and why the ’97 is better than the ’98. I want to punch the wine...

These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

The world will try to make you think that being good is outdated and old-fashioned and that popularity comes from breaking the rules and lowering your standards. Don’t buy into that way of thinking. As...

Desire to learn.Desire to read.Desire to think.Desire to write.

Reviews are great. I can read negative reviews and say, ‘You know that point they made… they were dead on.’

Childhood only comes around once. Make your child’s memories special. Take them on a new adventure each day. It is as simple as opening a book.

Books are great meals for the mind!

I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

how weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest of your life. And I remain deeply attached to the physical book and...

A hundred years ago, an average teenager knew countless authors, and, a sex position or two. Today, an average teenager knows countless sex positions, and, an author or two.