Quotes About Reading

I don't even read the papers. I read 'USA Today' because it has color photos.

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

I love the physicality of books.

For me, audio books was about when you can't actually physically get hold of a book, like when you're driving. It's a fantastic companion on a long journey.

I go on a lot of hikes. I read a lot. I play piano.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

I read the 'Kapoor & Sons' script in a half hour, forty five minutes. Not because I skimming through it... I read it like a book. By the end, I was blown away. I picked up the phone and said, 'This script is gold.'

I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

It's too easy to unconsciously echo another novelist's voice while reading fiction, a habit of mimicry I probably picked up as a musician.

I have lots of gaps in my education, and so I'm often picking up classic books that most people read years ago.

It's important to read as much as you can because you never know when you will find the best script that you want to do next. I'm always quite picky in what I read and what I go for.

As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times, and their parents are going to have to read it with them. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child.

I like to read and write and take pictures and bike.

You know it has to do with Kelley and drugs, and me... and there's like, what is it? I didn't read it. That's my thing. That's what I do, I don't read things if I don't think they're going to be good. I don't even look at the pictures.

I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.

It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction.

I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

If you think a child is going to be your accessory... it's not like a micro pig. It's not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.

You read a lot of pilots during pilot season, and not all of them really grab you.

You read so many scripts, especially pilots, that really feel like marbles in your mouth when you go to read them out loud.