Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Fey

If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

S. E. Hinton

If you enjoy reading something, read it.

Tom Rachman

A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.

Simon Newcomb

I was taught the alphabet by my aunts before I was four years old, and I was reading the Bible in class and beginning geography when I was six.

Rick Riordan

I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn't until I was 13 and discovered the 'Lord of the Rings' that I learned to love reading.

Richard Brautigan

A friend came over to the house a few days ago and read one of my poems. He came back today and asked to read the same poem over again. After he finished reading it, he said, It makes me want to write poetry.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Easy writings curse is hard reading.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Easy writing's curst hard reading.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Good reading makes for damn hard writing.

Robert A. Heinlein

My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I hadn’t fallen into the fatal folly of reading anything I could lay hands on. With just a touch more self confidence and a liberal helping of ignorance I could have been a famous evangelist.

Rihanna

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

Tim O'Brien

I'm not dead. But when I am, it's likeI don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and novel-reading, and crochet-needle, and the occasional manufacture of sponge cake.

Steven Wright

I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done.

Steven Wright

I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it's the same.

Steven Wright

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark.

Steven Wright

It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

Steven Soderbergh

I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.

Shannyn Sossamon

I'm reading and trying to find a television show that I really like, so I can start really working again and gain some momentum.

Seymour Papert

We should think about what we mean by literacy. If you say, "He's a very literate person," what you really mean is that he knows a lot, thinks a lot, has a certain frame of mind that comes through reading and knowing about various subjects.The major route open to literacy has been through reading and writing text. But we're seeing new media offer richer ways to explore knowledge and communicate, through sound and pictures.

Lewis Thomas

When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him, asserting his identity.... We are designed, coded, it seems, to place the highest priority on being individuals, and we must do this first, at whatever cost, even if it means disability for the group.

Leslie Fiedler

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

Leslie Jamison

The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.

Len Wiseman

I had no intention of replacing Arnold [Schwarzenegger]. There were a few things that made me want to do the movie. They were the script which had a different direction to it, and it was a chance to do a very different Quaid. I didn't read the short story until I went to college.Reading the story had a different effect on me of how I pictured him to be and the tone of the story was different. In the story, he's a bit more of an everyman.

Lemmy Kilmister

Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination.

Lee Pace

I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me started on a number of writers, including Hemingway.

Lawrence Clark Powell

Reading books is good, Rereading good books is better.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

Larry David

I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

Neil Postman

The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In reading, one's responses are isolated, one'sintellect thrown back on its own resourses. To be confronted by the cold abstractions of printed sentences is to look upon language bare, without the assistance of either beauty or community. Thus, reading is by its nature a serious business. It is also, of course, an essentially rational activity.

Neil Postman

Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.

Marcus Aurelius

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads