You either learn to play hard ball or you become the ball.
The monsters were never under our bed, but in the forest our future.
If love is a form of substance abuse, I hope to die high.
My existence began the day you were created and was realized the day we met.
People who always arrive early aren't worth waiting for.
Your embrace feels like slipping the key in the front door.
Every word you’ve ever said, is written somewhere in my mind.
Poker is a game where you don't have to have the best hand to win. Poker is really reading other people and reading human emotion, which certainly comes into play in business.
I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.
So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like being in a womb.
Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level.
I have a rule that I don't read my press, but then somebody in the crew will be reading it and of course it's right there, so what do you think I do?
I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you.
'Banshee' was interesting because it was on cable, and it didn't have commercial breaks, so it read like a movie. Not only because of that, but it was a pretty interesting style, and I hadn't read a show like this.
Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.
Making reading an enjoyable activity for children is a challenge. So I ensure that I write in a way that is fun for children to read.
I did buy 'The Sun' a few times, but I just don't read the tabloids. Sometimes they can have genius witty headlines, but that's all. There's nothing to read.
