I don’t speculate too much about the future. That’s the thing about this job – it’s so fickle. You take the jobs, you read the scripts and, if something interests you and you like the people who are working on it, you go for it.
There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
Church is definitely still present in my life. Every Sunday I’m tuned in and then throughout the week I read scriptures, I read motivational messages.
I read a lot. I enjoy reading a lot.
I’ve never read any of the ’50 Shades of Grey’ books because the Internet pre-educated me about the ‘my inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves’ material.
Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
I like to read the ‘Financial Times’ when I’m traveling. ‘Economist.’ ‘Ad Busters.’
I know I’m not creating transcendent works that will someday be taught in college. All I do is entertain. I try to entertain others by sending them into another world for a few hours. When I see my books read on the beach, the pages dabbed with suntan lotion, then I feel as if I’ve done my job.
I’m not a religious person, but I read the Bible many years ago.
If you think you have it tough, read history books.
I’m not a crazy Twitter guy to where I’m tweeting out stuff every day, and rarely even once a week do I tweet. But I mean, occasionally, I read some stuff.
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
In many regions, war and terror prevail. States disintegrate. For many years, we have read about this. We have heard about it. We have seen it on TV. But we had not yet sufficiently understood that what happens in Aleppo and Mosul can affect Essen or Stuttgart. We have to face that now.
I didn’t read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I’m older. I read them all.
We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day’s work at Auschwitz in the morning.
We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
Our daughter’s name Arwynn comes from Arwen in ‘Lord of the Rings’ because my wife and I met for the first time in the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford where J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis used to go to read out their stories to one another.
These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.
I can’t think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal event. Something outside of me, outside even my own life, something I read in a newspaper or witness on the street, something I see or hear, fascinates me. I see it for its dramatic potential.
I’m very proud of what I do and anything I do I represent, I feel like myself and my brand and if somebody’s trying to be negative, I don’t really read comments online.
I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn’t learned a thing I didn’t know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
My girlfriend has read all the ‘Game of Thrones’ books – twice.
At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
That’s one thing I like to do before going in for a read – doing research once I actually have been granted the role – is to look up people’s names.
All one needs to do is read – books, magazines, research the Internet – and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
I like to read books. I like to listen to music.
Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.
Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.
When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it’s all part of making sense of who I am.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who’s Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.
When I was 16, the first book I ever actually purchased with my own money, in fact, and had read on my own time was ‘Hunt for Red October’ by Tom Clancy.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
In one sense, the stories I read betrayed me. Too few gave me back my mirror image. Fewer still spoke to, or acknowledged, the existence of the problems I faced as a black foster child from a dysfunctional and badly broken home.
People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, ‘They’re just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don’t.’ Gee, I sound shallow. But I don’t react to current events or other stimuli. I don’t read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.
We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each new reader comes to reading with a ‘fresh’ brain – one that is programmed to speak, see, and think, but not to read.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world – and I’m lucky to see so much through cycling.
I think that the women’s magazines and a lot of those quick tips for better sex, I think that they do people a disservice, sometimes, because they become very focused on – they’re thinking, ‘Okay, I read that I should do this, and am I doing it right?’
I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.
When I read my own diary, a lot of those feelings came flooding back, such as the idea that the first boy you fall in love with will be your last. You can never imagine that you could ever love anyone else and that they’re just the one.
If a child wants to read ‘Twilight’ over Middlemarch, they should be encouraged – the important thing is to get them reading in the first place.
There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.
I read poetry to save time.
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
When I read ‘The Water Diviner,’ I was having the same kind of visceral reaction that I would normally have acting in something. I believed that I was the only person that could tell this story the way it needed to be told. That’s the real arrogance of a director!
I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I’m ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that’s not true.
If you read a lot of books, you’re considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well-viewed.
Write your goals down in detail and read your list of goals every day. Some goals may entail a list of shorter goals. Losing a lot of weight, for example, should include mini-goals, such as 10-pound milestones. This will keep your subconscious mind focused on what you want step by step.
