I can’t actually read interviews with thesps now because they’re almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer and football-loving commitments.

read before you speak

One of my favorite things I read was John Steinbeck’s journals while he was writing ‘East of Eden,’ which was so cool.

I’ve never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you.

Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I’ve read and what I haven’t read.

If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes and ears open. Pay attention to the different ways people speak. Read lots of...

I don’t think it’s always good to read lots of poetry.

Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to...

We don’t genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

I went out for a film where they wanted seven brothers and one sister, so I was there for half a day while they were waiting for ‘Archie’ to read for a boy… I’ve had...

When I was in New York, a lot of my friends were studying filmmaking and would bring their scripts to me, as I was a good script doctor. I would read their scripts and make...

The moment your kid’s born you realize no one knows anything. No one goes to classes. You just have a kid. You can read all the books you like, but unfortunately none of our kids...

I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn’t really have enough of that.

It is rare that you read scripts that genuinely move you and make you feel that, regardless of the commercial possibilities, you have to make the film.

Whether you’ve done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it’s just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise...

If you want to be, if you want to see, let us read a lot, then we will have a shot!

Read every sentence you write out loud. If it sounds boring, kill it.

My TV’s broken. It’s step one in my goal to read more.

God has written His divine guidelines for your life right in the Bible.

Envy, as distasteful as it is, has seeped into my mind on rare occasions, and those I’ve envied, although few in number, have only been those that live a life of leisure with peace of...

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

Self learner; reading.

I’m not one of those people who says, ‘I never read reviews,’ because I don’t believe those people.

I’ve been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You’re sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you’ve read a story or a group of poems...

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to...

I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I’ve read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire in a person courage, intellect, hard work. These are the qualities...

When you discover the joy of reading, your mind opens to a world of wondrous discoveries and infinite possibilities.

I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.

I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of...

My message for all my readers is: Don’t believe in those who claim that youth is a passing disease you just have to get rid of. Don’t believe, that maturity is a goal and an...

It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but...

The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read...

My ideal vacation isn’t about complex maneuvers. I want to arrive somewhere foreign where I don’t speak the language, go hiking, then plop down in a sunny square, have drinks, read a book, and see...

As for collaboration – I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It’s not that the books are bad; editors won’t even read them.