Quotes of: Readings Keyword

E.T.: [steps on a bathroom scale, it reads 35 lbs] Elliot: 35 pounds? You're fat!

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Danny Butterman: [reading a DVD cover] Meet Supercop... the cop, that can't be stopped.

Hot Fuzz

Javert: [reading proof that Monsieur le Maire is Jean Valjean] I knew it... I knew it. I KNEW IT!

Les Misérables

Max Mercy: You read my mind. Roy Hobbs: That takes all of three seconds.

The Natural

Bud Fox: Having sex with her was like reading the Wall St Journal.

Wall Street

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Anthony Hope

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

Barry Eisler

I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on.

Corin Nemec

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

Diane Wakoski

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

Howard Nemerov

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

J. K. Rowling

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

M. H. Abrams

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

Nicholson Baker

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

Nell Freudenberger

Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that.

Robert Adamson

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

Russell Baker

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.

Rita Dove

I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.

Viggo Mortensen

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

Frederik Pohl

Newspapers and magazines are vanishing. But science writers are not. In fact, they are becoming so adept and varied that I hardly have time to read 'Gawker' anymore.

Michael Specter