Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.
When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.
To live, pray. To learn, read. To love, give. To listen, pay attention. But to be wise, apply all that you have acquired
Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?
There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.
I actually read 'Wonder Woman,' and here's the thing about her: she's more of a physical presence than anything else. You don't get to really know her on the inside.
I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.
I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.
I'm a bit more of a suspense reader on the adult side, but my favorites were the ones I grew up reading.
When you read something in script form, there are some subtleties that stand out with far greater gravitas than sometimes what you see on screen.
I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.
You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.
It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.
By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.
There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.
I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.
Superman was my first comic back in the '50s; that was me under the bedspread with the flashlight reading comic books.
If you feel like you're drowning, don't forget that it is just a feeling; it will pass with love and care. If you're actually drowning, then how are you reading this?
