I always get scared. I can’t read scripts. I’m scared, scary movies and stuff.

A lot of things I have turned down ended up being a big embarrassment. Like that script, ‘The Beaver.’ I thought that was one of the worst scripts I had ever read. But everyone said,...

Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.

I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.

Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.

I do not read for I have renounced life, I read because one life is just not enough for me.

I’d read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.

If you read the memoirs of slave-owning families, you’d be hard pressed to find evidence of black people in the lives of the whites, even though for most of the time on the plantations black...

You’ll read things and say, this is a really good project and it’s probably going to be a hit, but I can see 20 other people playing that part. You have to have some sense...

There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they’ll read my books.

Didn’t come up here to read. Came up here to hit.

Although the Bible is a living book, it will not jump into your palms pleading, “Read me please”. You’ve to make a choice to do so!

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

Duane Allman was the best guitar player I ever heard who didn’t read a note.

I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasn’t necessarily intending...

We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it is as easy to read the history of the sea, as it is to read...

I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it’s much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!

My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn’t a great crime reader to begin with.

His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to...

If you were to climb up on your desk, walk around behind your monitor and lean way over so you could see the screen, you’d be able to read ‘Wordplay’ just as easily as you...

Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it’s a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They’re going to read one...

The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened

Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your...

Celebrity poverty, that’s the hidden scandal in Blair’s Britain. You can’t help but worry for them. A girl I knew developed X-ray eyes for celebrity sorrows. She taught me to read the subtext of the...

She asked me could I read and write. I told her, “Of course, and I can talk too.

I’m not really a director for hire. You read these scripts and go, ‘This is a really great script, but Paul Greengrass would make this so much better than me.’ I usually say, ‘I know...

I love to read. That doesn’t mean I don’t have a life. It doesn’t mean I’m a nerd.I only love the feeling that, even when you’re back in reality, you still feel like you’re in...

We haven’t remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again – gradually you begin to think like a writer. Ideas are not found – they are shaped.

I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it’s telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing.

Enjoy what you are learning and doing. This is one of the hardest concepts in the entire world to understand. Harder yet to put into practice.

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it.

I used to go on all these blogs and all these websites which I really don’t like to go and read about at all, and I couldn’t care less anymore.

If after you read something, you connect with it, you want to do it.

I’m a big ‘Star Wars’ fan and grew up watching the movies. I read all the books and have read ‘Star Wars’ fiction that went between the newest trilogy and the original trilogy and it...

I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem – you are the voice in...

I can’t read music. Instead, I’d do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College,...

You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if...

The most the average person probably reads in a day is a STOP sign or two. And based on how people drive in Jacksonville, I don’t think they even read that much.

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

I do read books. I suppose it’s more or less the same thing, but at least I’m alone and I’m an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.

Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out...

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.

A novel is too much of a commitment. I tend to peruse Twitter – I check to see if I had any mentions and read the latest messages.

I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.

Once I had opened a book and read its pages, those characters could never be taken away from me. Even if the books were burned, they would still live on in my mind.

When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of...

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

Only a true reader will understand how lovely it is to read a book on rainy days.