Quotes About Reading

As a huge admirer of Vivekananda, I love reading 'Sayings of Vivekananda.'

I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.

I couldn't read a screenplay without puking.

I can't tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I'd done so much reading.

I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you.

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

The more I read scripts, the more I learn about scripts, basically.

I remember reading 'Disturbia,' one of the first scripts I ever got, and I go 'Pfft, who wants to make a movie about a guy in a house?'

I'm terrible at reading scripts. I love to read, and I hate reading scripts.

I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading.

I read a lot of scripts, but few of them stand out to me.

I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.

Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.

I read as many scripts as I can and just find stuff that I think is interesting, find stories that I think are worth telling.

I don't read that many books - I tend to read scripts for projects.

There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture.

I'm always in search of those books where you don't want to stop reading, and 'Me Before You' is at the top of that list.

I read incessantly, searching for the things that might move me.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

I'm a digital reader. When I travel abroad, I don't want to pack physical books, and I even like reading on my smartphone.

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.

I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.