We all identify with the people we see, and in a good documentary, we are not just reading an account of the world, we’re seeing and hearing our world.
I sat down with a yellow legal pad and began writing ‘A Time to Kill.’ Had no idea what I was doing. It became, over a period of several years, a secret little hobby nobody knew about except my wife, because she was reading chapter by chapter.
In the early ’90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was moved by the writers, like Chinua Achebe, and I wanted to be able to write rhymes that were as potent as what I was reading.
Well my dad forced me into playing the violin when I was about three and it all started from there. I went to Suzuki for violin lessons, and you learn to play by ear instead of reading music.
Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.
I had high hopes for ‘Moonlight,’ just off the reaction I had while reading the script.
People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.
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.
I was a really good student. In the sixth grade, I was reading at a twelfth grade reading level. But I got bored.
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
People are interested in crime fiction when they’re quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.
The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.
Whitney and I have fun reading the newspaper sometimes. You’d be amazed at the places they say I’ve been.
A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.
I’ve learned how to sleep on airplanes. When I’m taking a trans-Atlantic flight or going to a different continent, I will always read because reading puts me to sleep. When you watch a movie, you have all that light coming to your eyes, but with reading, I can’t get through 15 or 20 pages.
My elementary school teachers were big on pushing kids to read. If you read a certain amount of books, they would provide you with incentives, sort of like what we are doing with the WrestleMania Reading Challenge.
My mom would always read a book to me at night from when I was three. Now, I can’t go to sleep without reading a book. At the same time, once I read, it’s difficult for me to go to sleep, as I have an overactive imagination and I start thinking.
I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals.
When I was younger, I inhaled books, and reading has always been my one true love.
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn’t stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom.
We’re moving from reading the genetic code to writing it.
In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.
I don’t do rehearsal. Some directors prefer to do rehearsal – readings before the actual shooting – but I don’t like this process because I think there are certain things that are so spontaneous, and they cannot happen twice.
There are some books that get huge numbers of positive reviews, but reading them satiates people. They say, ‘I’ve read enough now’.
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read – Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier – were rhyme poets. That’s what captured me.
I was so anxious for it to be my turn, for the manager to read the letter from my mum. I waited and waited for it. The manager had spoken to the mothers of every player in the team; he’d been reading a message before every game for months, and finally my turn had come.
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.
A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.
As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don’t deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.
I love reading all the mythological stories. I was brought up on them.
I don’t read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there’s too much reading and not enough thinking.
If a kid is reading a book about someone who looks like them but doesn’t talk like them, we stunt their growth by dissing them.
What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.
I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London.
I don’t exhaust myself by reading or listening to the noise around me.
I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as a species. When you really get it right in acting, it’s an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.
Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
I really enjoy acting. At home I can’t even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife’s dream, to be an actress part-time.
The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.
I’ve always been that way. I’m not very good at reading music but I’m pretty quick at picking things up.
I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to ‘Brokeback Mountain’. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I’m glad I did.
A lot of what the ‘Culture’ is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
My mother used to laugh that if they asked me to clean up my room, I would spend so much time reading every tiny bit of paper, a receipt or whatever, instead of throwing it in the trash.
The act of reading a story is sacred, and people build images and all that stuff.
In theater, you go in-depth with your character, so coming to the States, it was inevitable to dig into the pilots I liked. I knew what characters I was going to be reading for, so I would dissect them and really get involved with them.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.
There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading – and that’s for very young children between the ages of one month and five years and for teenagers. I’ve been trying to find ways of approaching both groups.
I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage.
When I was fifteen, I used to run around reading ‘Adbusters’ and dumpster diving, trying to find ways to make the U.S. government unwind into chaos through hardcore punk and metal.
With my reading, I like something with quite a happy ending.
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
The ‘means of grace’ are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord’s Supper. I lay it down as a simple matter of fact that no one who is careless about such things must ever expect to make much progress in sanctification.
I like reading my bible, I like bible studies where I get together with others and talk about the word of God and how it relates to us and how we can change to become more like him.
I was reading an article in the ‘New York Times;’ it talked about being in the zone, and being in the zone you’re so focused that time ceases to exist. It’s when you think, ‘Oh, I’ve been doing this for five hours and didn’t even know it.’ It’s the difference between hard work and going, ’12 o’clock, not moving.’
