My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed it all the time.
It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
Any time that we read a script and the 'Leverage' team has to infiltrate a place, assume identities, or become con artists ourselves to take down the really bad con artists, it's always fun to do that.
I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.
The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.
Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.
I'm pretty sure this is it for the teen movie thing. It's so frustrating to read when you get to page 20 and you're like, Oy! It's the same thing again!
I travel, I read, I write, I have other lives. But when I have a camera, I know that's my country, my island.
I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip. In a sense, as a writer you are doing the travel for the reader.
I think there's a lot of crazy stuff on the Internet. You read stuff that is wild speculation, and there's an element of it that makes me not trust it because there's this undercurrent of insanity to it sometimes.
I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don't sort of indulge in my own fodder. I don't really care what they write about me.
But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.
Berger: We read five times that you were killed, in five different places. Victor Laszlo: As you can see, it was true every single time.
Uncle Les: She's history! I know what to do, I've read the comics! Total... bodily... dismemberment!
Hans Gruber: [Reading what McClane wrote on the dead terrorist's shirt] "Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho."
Agnes: Will you read us a bedtime story? Gru: No. Agnes: Pretty please? Gru: The physical appearance of the please makes no difference.
Narrator: [reading] I am Jack's colon. Tyler Durden: I get cancer, I kill Jack.
Victorian Lady Ghost: [floating in mid-air reading a book] Dr Ray Stantz: [excitedly] A full torso apparition, and it's real.
Ghost Dog: Night Nurse? You actually read that? Pearline: No. I just like the cover.
John: Hey he's reading the Queen... that's an in joke, you know.
Sam Chaiton: [to Lesra] You know what Les, sometimes we don't pick the books we read, they pick us.
