Reading Quotes
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I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.
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I like a novel to have a certain amount of dead time and filler - unremarkable scenery, descriptions of getting from point A to point B, dialogue in which not much is said - in between the parts that are electric. With a long work that you don't read in one sitting, I think that makes for the best reading experience.
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This program is not a place where personal opinion should be mixed up with ascertainable facts...It is not, I think, humanly possible for any reporter to be completely objective, for we are all to some degree prisoners of our education, travel, reading-the sum total of our experience.
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I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader.
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I have been reading scripts, going to auditions and looking for the right opportunities.
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Modern dynamic economies do not stay still long enough to allow for an accurate reading of their underlying structures.
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From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.
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My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art.
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I have been reading crime books ever since I was a child, but I had never tried to write one.
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When I was a child, I was reading books filled with people different from me, all French, all foreigners. There was a sense of disconnect between my sense of imagination and the world around me, which I don't think is common for Americans. It forces you to learn to look at the world through other people's eyes.
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I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.
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Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film.
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I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.
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I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.
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I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.
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It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.
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A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.
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I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it apart from a few characters.
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Because they are inherently social, people find value in reading the same books and watching the same movies that others do.
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Reading a play, you view yourself as part of a whole. You see where the whole thing is going, and so you're willing to go to the very ugly place that your heart may go in order to serve the whole.
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When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!
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Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.
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When I was a kid, my grandparents were Greek immigrants on my father's side. My grandfather used to read me Greek myths, in which there are a great many goddesses and stories of strong women. And I was entranced by them. Then I started reading science fiction very young, and I loved it.
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I was an altar boy and heard the Bible being read out repeatedly. The stories have stayed with me, although they're completely remixed in my head. And often, when I do further reading, I'm quite surprised by the difference between the real story and my memory of the story.
