Quotes About Involvement

It's absolutely fine to be a bit more reactive and not chase after the ball at times. But you cannot be passive.

If after you read something, you connect with it, you want to do it.

In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.

I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very actively in the experience.

Remember, if you don't feel passionate about the characters and subject of your story, your readers won't either.

One of the biggest complaints readers have about my work is that I don't tell them often enough what they can do. I do think this is an area where journalism sometimes falls short. We describe a really grim situation but don't really explain to people what they can do about it.

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

The great thing about small children is they're portable, so we take them everywhere, but when it comes to 2015, Zachary's going to school, and I want to be there to drop him off and pick him up. I don't want to just be the father who reads them a bedtime story.

My dad reads everything about me.

Then you get to be involved with all the people, meet all the beautiful girls, get all the good food, get ready and locked in before all the crowds hit.

Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.

I have been hung in effigy by the gay community for a long time, from when I was on President Reagan's first AIDS commission.

If folks really want music in their community they can do it very cheaply. It doesn't have to be a $50 million program. All we need is just a little real estate.

I always try to stay in the moment, in real life and in acting.

Before Bolton I played for Real Madrid and I was getting involved in the first-team training since I was 16 and then I played with the first team at 18.

I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.

The big percentage is us, the real people, and we have to say something. You have to speak up. You have to.

What any candidate should do in any race, frankly, is to show up. There's no special, secret sauce there. It's about having real conversations with real people, and when you do that you stay tethered to the things that matter. And that's what people want.

I never missed a birthday. I never missed a school play. We carpooled. And the greatest compliment I can ever get is not about my career or performance or anything; it's when people say, 'You know, your girls are great.' That's the real thing for me.

People love to interact in real time, whether it is with each other or with content.

I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can.

When I became a father, all that stuff rose up again from the back of my mind. I suddenly realised how uninvolved my father had been in my life.