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.

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.

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The world will try to make you think that being good is outdated and old-fashioned and that popularity comes from breaking the rules and lowering your standards.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.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I’d pick out an author and I would read all their books.

I don’t know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven’t read a lot of books. I just don’t think you’re equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly...

Well – I started writing – probably in the early 60s and by say ’65-’66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published – certainly in the 20 years prior to that.

Ignorance; lack of knowledge or lack of curiosity.

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

Forget boys and read a good book. Or study. When you’re twenty-five and ranking in the big bucks, men will be falling all over you’re a successful professional woman.

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...

Write what you want to write; don’t fear about who will read it.

In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.

I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.

Naked Lunch” that day, but the cafeteria served us all clothing. I like my meals a little more scandalous. I should eat in the library, along with the other gluttonous nudists.

What I would do is a 10-minute short of some kind on video, and if it’s good enough, you get it passed around town and just get some attention, so then they’ll read what you...

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad’s study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the black leather chair that kept me just uncomfortable enough to...

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute.

But in another, I think a woman’s going to go into a shop to find a coat or a jacket and I just don’t think she’s not going to go into a shop because of...

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our...

It had been a good day, all things considered. I had managed rather well on my own. I opened Grandfather’s Bible. This is what it would be like when I had my own shop, or...

To read is to climb the high places!