Reading Quotes

Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s.

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.

I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself.

I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years.

I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise.

Like, every couple of months you read, they rewrite, you come back in, they've animated more stuff - they usually videotape you while you're reading it - so they'll incorporate some gestures and some facial expressions into it.

I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.

I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it.

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

I sort of try to read the books when they come out impartially and not make up my mind, but the fact is when I was reading the sixth, 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince', there were bits in there where I was going, 'God, I would love to do that because it's so good'.

At the same time, reading an action script... It makes me wonder. Was The Matrix a good script? I don't know.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun.

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job.

I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.

The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know.