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Because of that I don't care when I read in the newspaper that I am colourblind. I went through a red light in my car and I stopped when I before a green light. So I must be really colourblind, eh?

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.

I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

I think really good books can be read by anybody.

Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture.

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.

If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.

One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings.

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

When I read the script, I was like, Hello, woman in a box. I had to explore that to the end.

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look.

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

Actually, every time I am back in New York, I read for as many plays as I can.

As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

I don't think many people have ever read the report. Who has read 26 volumes of this case? How many read the summary? If you read the summary, it takes a long time.

If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.