Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Clowes

There are certain comics that just seem like they have this perfect balance between dialogue and image that I can't not read. I'll want to save it for later, and the next thing I know, I'm reading it. That's what I'm kind of trying to do with my comics.

Daniel Craig

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

Cotton Mather

Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. Let not what should be sauce, rather than food for you, engross all your application. Beware of a boundless and sickly appetite for the reading of poems which the nation now swarms withal; and let not the Circaen cup intoxicate you. But especially preserve the chastity of your soul from the dangers you may incur, by a conversation with muses no better than harlots.

Clive James

I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.

Clive James

I love reading about the sea. I love reading about it a lot more than actually being on the sea, when you think about it.

Clive James

Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour.

Clive Barker

There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of the human imagination since humans were presumably imaginative. And I think that’s what [people] find touching, these eternal ideas. It’s one of the things that makes fantasy something that tends to stand the test of time because we’re reading, 50 years later, The Lord of the Rings.

E. B. White

The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. Because I have the greatest respect for the reader, and if he's going to the trouble of reading what I've written -- I'm a slow reader myself and I guess most people are -- why, the least I can do is make it as easy as possible for him to find out what I'm trying to say, trying to get at. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.

E. B. White

All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.

E. B. White

Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.

Andre Holland

Things maybe take longer usually when it comes to TV - especially network TV. There are usually multiple levels that you have to go through in terms of the casting director, the producers, the studio, the network, reading with other people.

Andre Benjamin

I don't mind opinions, because you like something or you don't like something, but to say things about your personal life? I'm like, "Man, let me quit reading this. 'Cause I'll stab everybody."

Andre Gide

I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from various angles) by those among the characters on whom they will have had any effect. I would like those events, in the account they will make of them, to appear slightly distorted; a kind of interest stems, for the reader, from the simple fact that he should need to restore. The story requires his collaboration in order to properly take shape.

Ann Patchett

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

Ann Patchett

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

Aneurin Bevan

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

Ang Lee

There's a certain time in the core of making a movie from pre-production to halfway through post-production I don't read any project, my agent will tell people that "he's not reading." And then when I know how the movie's probably gonna work halfway into post-production, I'll come along.

Anatole France

There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.

Amanda Peet

The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.

Alvin Toffler

Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.

Anne Fadiman

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

Anne Graham Lotz

Anything John Stott says is worth listening to. Anything he writes is worth reading. Basic Christianity is not only a classic must-read for every believer; it is truly a blessing preserved on the written page for the enrichment of this generation and those to come.

Anne Hathaway

It's definitely a thing to be sitting there, getting a pedicure, and you look over and someone is reading an article about an aspect of your life that you know is not true. It's weird, it's uncomfortable, but I don't see it changing anytime soon, so I should figure a way to laugh through it.

Anne Frank

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

Chuck Palahniuk

I have a secret goal with my editor - he has asthma and uses his inhaler, and after I send him a new manuscript, I'll have his assistant phone me and tell me how many times he had to get his inhaler out while reading a draft. It's my secret laugh meter.

Chuck Jones

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

Chuck Klosterman

People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they're positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in doing criticism because of that. I've always realized that criticism is basically autobiography. Obviously in my criticism, it's very clear that it's autobiography, but I think it's that way for everybody.

Christopher Wren

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

Christopher Walken

I have a lot of trouble with scripts. I have a lot of trouble imagining things while I'm reading them.

Christopher Moore

If you like what you're reading, I probably wrote it.

Christopher Moore

Do we look like thrill-seekers? Wasn't it enough that we had to put up that sign reading NO HABLA ESPANOL and acknowledge the existence of thirty percent of the population, even in the negative?

Annie Proulx

Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror...

Annie Proulx

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