Reading Quotes - page 93

My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books. (Josh Hutcherson)
It was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I had no idea that it would have the effect it had on the audience. While most people ignored it, of course, and continue to live full and happy lives without reading it or anything else by me, there was still a surprisingly large group who responded to the story with some fervency. View quote
Orson Scott Card
All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this was the first conversation of my life that concerned a book, and 'the life of the mind' - and now, such subjects have become my life. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
I find it necessary on the first page of this book, quite ready for publication, to give the following advice: :Read each of my written expositions thrice: :Firstly: at least as you have already become mechanized to read all your contemporary books and newspapers. :Secondly: as if you were reading aloud to another person. :And only thirdly: try and fathom the gist of my writings. Only then will you be able to count upon forming your own impartial judgment, proper to yourself alone, on my writings. And only then can my hope be actualized that according to your understanding you will obtain the specific benefit for yourself which I anticipate, and which I wish for you with all my being. View quote
G. I. Gurdjieff
I was not really of the barrio, but the barrio was an important part of my life. Spanish was my first language; English was the language of my reading world. This was the world I lived in-an idealistic world, and unreal world that filled my senses with hopes, with joy and identification... View quote
Estela Portillo-Trambley
Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors by trying at the outset to imitate them by daring then to be original by destroying one's first productions. View quote
André Maurois
Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work. View quote
Buzz Aldrin
Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different. (Tom Hanks)
I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script. View quote
Saoirse Ronan
I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.' View quote
Edie Falco
Reading is an active and elusive experience. Every reader, reading exactly the same text, will have a slightly different reading experience depending on what s/he projects into the words s/he sees, what strings of meaning and association those words call up in his/her (always) private mind. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Am I reading too much into all that innuendo, or did you in fact just connive to assassinate Gregor in one breath, offer to cuckold him in the next, accuse your father of homosexuality, suggest a patricidal plot against him, and league yourself with Cavilo -- what are you going to do for an encore? View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story. View quote
Willa Cather
"I love reading manga!!” "I really, really love drawing them too!!” "I draw therefore I am!!” "This is proof that I exist!! I'm satisfied with just that!!!” The point is I'm a manga idiot. View quote
Hiromu Arakawa
I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me. View quote
Nora Roberts
I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, 'Let's do this!' So I'm co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me. View quote
Kerry Washington
There are books that I own that somehow even without reading them they mean something to me. So I think people have a relationship with books in a library whether you've come specifically to read them or not. (Rem Koolhaas)
It can be very frustrating and very deflating to be constantly defined and described by other people, so I've stopped reading anything written about me, and I find it much healthier. I just sort of concentrate on what I do and don't worry too much about that. View quote
Ani DiFranco
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. View quote
Jodi Picoult
Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them. View quote
Ricky Gervais
I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying in publishing that girls will read about boys, but boys will only read about boys, and it's important to give women strong heroines. View quote
Cassandra Clare