I’m such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I’m always talking up books by other authors.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important....

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .

Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them.

If you read fast and read all, maybe some of the sand will stay in the sieve.

There’s editing, and scripts to read and edit, and casting, and all the elements of production that just sort of take up the normal downtime that you would have as an actor. So there’s not...

My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts – some good enough that I could see myself. But then it’s like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else...

I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

You must learn to read well, Marisa. As long as you’re a good reader, you can learn anything, do anything.

Real people conceive originality then think, write but never read of others’ posts to copy to follow and the copycats follow exactly the opposite direction i.e. read of others’ posts, write but never think and...

What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

Reading gives liberty to your mind.

People choose to read, and it takes effort. It’s not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It’s more than a hobby.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he...

The more I read, the more I realise what I don’t know.

I want to write a book so long that it will take the average person their whole life to read. It will be exactly the same length as the Bible.

I knew how to read a contract by 10 years old, but I didn’t know what it meant for somebody to come in and tell me they loved me and kiss me goodnight. That’s a...

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

My TV’s remote control didn’t have a source of energy, so I poured coffee in it. Now I can read any book I want.

What you read between the covers of your Bible is wisdom for a lifetime, rock-solid, forever truth—truth you can stand on, live by, and trust…forever.

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.

If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book...

It feels so good to be able to be part of an action flick like ‘The Raid’ and to read the rave reviews in a number of film festivals.

I’ve been reading Tanith Lee since I was a teenager, beginning with ‘The Birthgrave’ and ‘The Storm Lord.’ Only recently did I discover, to my delight, how many more of her books I’ve yet to...

Escape to Read and Read to Escape!

The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn’t know how to read music is over.

I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it’s all about.

The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you read in a paper, that seems to go off, like a solar flare...

Most of the stuff I’ve read about me has been true.

You Are Not Special”, 6-12)

I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read ‘Crime and Punishment,’ and that book just, I think, more than any other book made me want to be a...

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

If I like a book, I tend to read the author’s entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.

If I make you read, then I’ll keep quiet. If I make you think, then I’ll keep reading. If I make you smile, then I’ll keep writing.

I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

Just read one book a month and at the end of they year you would be totally different but an impressive personality.

You learn a lot by reading and even more by sharing.

I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read – which is to choose a book for our personal reasons. I always shudder when I’m told my books...

I don’t know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I’m hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read...

Life’s adventures make great reading!

All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I don’t read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don’t read self-help books because...

No policeman had ever arrested anyone for over-reading; but ignorance prosecutes those who under-read. You begin to stop growing on the day you stop learning, so why not keep learning and keep growing!

Mishaps in life echoes for eternity. Weeks from now, I will be harvesting my glory. Imagine greater!

The sky never falls with the rain. It is never weighed down by all that it carries. It takes all of its anchorsand turns them into stars. Learn from this.

Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints and motifs, give our children stuffed animals to clutch, cartoon animals...

When I read a script, if I feel it’s written with the idea of just bashing other people, then I shy away from it. Sometimes it’s some guy coming out with his own hatred, and...