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I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.

It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.

I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

I read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy, cool and funny. It's a really specific thing. We stuck to it, it turned out good and a lot of people liked it.

I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films.

Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.

I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.

I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real.

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in.

Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.

What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.

There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.

People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.

Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!

It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story.