Quotes About Reading

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.

I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.

I like to read really good books - anything that's really great, whether it's fiction, non-fiction, how-to, or whatever.

I like to read non-fiction on my e-reader, but as for fiction, I usually like to have a copy to keep at home.

I read a couple of books a week. About 80 percent of what I read is contemporary literature for adults. The other 20 percent is made up of non-fiction and children's books.

I read both in French and English and often a couple of books at once, mixing fiction and non-fiction.

I prefer non-fiction to fiction. In fact, I don't read fiction at all. I read books that are based on true events.

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.

People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend or family member to a novel I believe they'll cherish but might not otherwise have thought to pick up and read.

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

I find now I'm reading a lot more nonfiction, simply because every time I read fiction, I think I can write it better. But every time I read nonfiction, I learn things.

I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.

I finish two books a week, mostly nonfiction.

I tend not to read fiction - I'll read one novel a year during the summer - but I do read a lot of nonfiction.

For about a year, when we lived at Middlewick, I couldn't really go anywhere. But the children came and went as normal - they just got on with it - and so did great friends. I would pass the time by reading a lot - more than I'd ever have been able to in a normal life.

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.'

Normally when I'm sent a script I'll read it through to see how it hangs as a story and then I'll go back and read it through again and look at the character.

Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.

I've been reading a lot about North Korea ever since I got the part in 'The Interview' because it's just such a fascinating place. There are so many amazing stories of bravery coming out of there.

When I was a little girl, my first link to the world was as a reader. Sometimes, I feel a nostalgia for those times, for all the emotions I felt as a child - discovering novels, discovering Dickens, Balzac, or Dostoevsky. I wanted to be like those men.

Obviously I had gone all through high school and into college, and you don't do that not knowing how to read.

In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!