Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.
During long car rides to the set, after I study my script, I go onto my iPad to read books and play games.
My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.
My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.
My dad used to sit me on his knee and read from the Bible to us. We were a praying family. Ours was a family of love and a family of prayer.
The easiest diet is, you know, eat vegetables, eat fresh food. Just a really sensible healthy diet like you read about all the time.
Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.
My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.
When it comes down to helping kids, a lot of ways for education to move forward is through music because that's exciting to kids. Reading books and going to a bookstore is not that exciting.
I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere!
Neal Stephenson is great. He can write about a white wall for six pages, and it sounds fascinating. I read the whole 'Baroque Cycle' and 'Cryptonomicon.'
Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
I like to read and dream and create music that is based on the imagery of text. If you have the combination of a great book and a great filmmaker, what could be better for the composer?
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
I met Barack Obama, I read his book, I like him a great deal. I disagree with him on very fundamental issues.
I know America's great not because I read about it in a book but because I've seen it with my own eyes.
