Quotes About Insight

I find that my reading, particularly nonfiction, can inspire a poem as well as anything else.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

Every person who has a reading with me has an audiotape.

I'm very good at reading people - and very bad at math.

I'm good at reading people.

Comedy is a reaction to the world, and I think it really helps to be an outsider. I've always been very interested in people's behavior, to the point of being obsessed - seeing what people needed and reading them, I think that's the backbone of comedy.

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.

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.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

My mum reads every script before I go for it.

Busquets reads everything. Players like Busquets or Xabi Alonso in midfield have the capacity to read the whole game.

I don't claim to have all the answers; after all, I'm just a comedian who reads a lot.

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

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.

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

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

I just think there's a real art in listening. I need to listen.

In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.

People always ask me, 'I don't know how you could watch that, how that affects you,' and I just tell them, 'I went through it in real life, so it's like pilots watching a 'Top Gun' movie or cyclists watching a bicycle movie,' something like that.

To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.

The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.