Quotes About Engagement

I can't retire. My readers won't let me.

When the Hyderabad Chapter of TFI approached me to be a part of their Leaders in Classroom event, I readily agreed to be a part of it. It was a great classroom experience. I really enjoyed myself. The kids were very expressive and it was heartening to say the least.

Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.

We all identify with the people we see, and in a good documentary, we are not just reading an account of the world, we're seeing and hearing our world.

I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.

I found reading musical notation frightfully boring.

If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.

They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece.

If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of bad stuff out there. You just continue reading scripts, and eventually you find something you connect with.

For a lot of kids, reading is not magical. It's really hard work.

At a certain point, you have to stop reading social.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing 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.

If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that's it. You're not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You're not going to read that book again.

Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.

Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample.

Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's position.

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't think anybody else does.

I'd rather have just one person who reads and feels my work deeply than hundreds of thousands who read it but don't really care about.

The thing with Netflix is everyone who reads this article can go to Netflix, watch 'Live in Oakland' and come to D.C. and see me do a different show. It's a constant source of people getting to know me.

My dad reads everything about me.