When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
That's how I prepare for anything - I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I'm a bit of a nerd like that.
Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.
Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
All we did in Alabama was have a read through with the script, but there was, 'No, well, it needs more. You've got to do this, Albert. You've got to do that, Jessica.' It didn't feel like that at all.
My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.
It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
I was like a mutant when I was a boy. I learned to read when I was four years old; it was like a miracle.
Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.
Fate lies in our hands, its just that we need to be brave enough to read it & desire enough to change it
oh god i live in sea of shallow people ..i hope someday find who really deeper than every book i read it..
These empty pages are your future, soon to become your past. T will read the most personal tale you shall ever find in a book.
These empty pages are your future, soon to become your past. They will read the most personal tale you shall ever find in a book.
When reading, we don’t fall in love with the characters’ appearance. We fall in love with their words, their thoughts, and their hearts. We fall in love with their souls.
I remember reading 'Disturbia,' one of the first scripts I ever got, and I go 'Pfft, who wants to make a movie about a guy in a house?'
If you read the bible from cover to cover you will want to start it all over again. You find something new each time.
I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.
When someone goes to watch my film in the theatre, they won't remember the last four articles they read about me. Instead, they will think about the last film I did.
