Reads Quotes

When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers.

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

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.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right.

Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.

It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said.

If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.

Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.

Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.

I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.

I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.

Man is what he reads.

Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.

World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

All I've ever really done is page 3 in The Sun, and not every man reads that.