Reading Quotes

My writing process hasn't changed - it's is the same whether I'm working on a Y.A. novel or, as now, a new novel for adults. A lot of reading, a lot of research if the subject warrants it, a lot of sticky notes and scraps of paper - and get to work.

Kathe Koja
- Work
- Writing
- Reading
Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.

Veronica Roth
- People
- Book
- Listening

Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.

Karin Slaughter
- School
- Why
- Question
I'm jackin' off reading Playboy on a hot afternoon, I'm a three time loser.

Rod Stewart
- Loser
- Afternoon
- Playboy
I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!

Kate Beckinsale
- Up
- Book
- Mother
When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.

Frances Mayes
- Name
- Breathe
- Dare
I'm a quiet person's nightmare - the only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek.

Jodie Whittaker
- Up
- Time
- Book
My earliest experience was reading Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' at 8, you know, with a bunch of kids on my steps - on the stoops - and knowing that I wanted to direct them saying the lines. I don't really know how to articulate that 'cause there wasn't someone to show me.

Lee Daniels
- Experience
- Kids
- Reading