Quotes About Influence

I wasn't really much of a reader early on, but when I first started getting into reading at around 16 all I could really read was Kurt Vonnegut books.

My way of finding a book is to go on Emma Roberts' reading list.

I would be honored if someone reads my books and it inspires them to write their own work.

My mum reads every script before I go for it.

A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.

Honestly, if anyone reads my work, they're doing me a favor, so they get to use whatever words they want to describe it. I can't control that, nor if they like the work, so best not to even try.

Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.

I think 'Beasts of No Nation' is a novel that hopefully will affect each person who reads it in a different way.

My dad reads everything about me.

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

Right now, black female artists are the most interesting people to think about. People are ready to hear whatever we're gonna say, and I'm not scared to say anything.

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.

Our love of Hollywood-style glamour helped elect two presidents: JFK and Reagan, who fulfilled the prophecy that a country so enamored of actors would eventually make one their president.

I became a huge Reagan admirer.

Reagan used to say that 'we're a country with a government.' Well, now we're a government with a country, and we're making everybody else that way, too.

Nothing is going to change the fact that I believe Ronald Reagan is the greatest president in my lifetime - may well be the greatest president this nation ever had.

I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.

My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'

I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being an actor.'

We have to be very cognizant of the fact that 90 percent of the electronic media in this country is owned, operated, programmed, and controlled by conservatives. They made a concerted effort during and before the Reagan years that they were going to get the microphone.

Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.

Everyone seemed to want a piece of Ronald Reagan. It was maddening.