Reading Quotes
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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, hands-down, my favorite activity.
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It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista.
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In order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a charismatic program, then if you can read you can lead. When the leader gets killed while you're reading from page 13 of your charismatic program, you can bury the man with honors, then continue the plan by reading from page 14. Let's keep on.
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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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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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I hate the idea of any kid missing out on the magic of reading.
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I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.
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I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading.
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When I was a little girl, I was a real, drippy bookworm. But when I went into fashion, I stopped reading.
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If you're reading this...
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My girlfriend always giggles during sex. No matter what she's reading.
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So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.
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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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Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.
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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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Somewhere in this process, I begin reading and showing my book to my audience. When I say my audience, I mean a single imaginary child who is a blend of myself as a young person, the students in my wife's classroom of first- through third-graders, and the students from two classrooms I visit regularly in the Bronx, New York.
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Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.
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It becomes very obvious, by reading a dog, how stable or unstable his human companion is. Our dogs are our mirrors.
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I can pretty much justify anything as work if I'm reading the news or whatever.
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When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.
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Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying for a writer I enjoy reading regularly to hole up in Heidegger's hut for four or five years to bring forth a mountain.
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When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!
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I do a lot of reading of news so I can be smarter, and I do a lot of watching TV news so I can know why Americans aren't very smart. Then I can point out the hypocrisy of politicians or the media.
