Quotes of: Readings Keyword

It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview.

John Hawkes

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Jane Hamilton

I don't think people like to read about themselves or about others as they really are. It would be too horrifying.

James Jones

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

Jack Kevorkian

I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover.

Julie Kagawa

My grandmother, who taught me how to cook, didn't know how to read.

Jill Lepore

If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.

Jim Lehrer

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

Jonathan Lethem

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

Jonathan Lethem

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

James Madison

Christopher McCandless: I read somewhere how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong... but to feel strong.

Into the Wild

I play video games a lot... I love to read... I enjoy spending time with my husband and daughter, who are my most favorite people in the world.

Lea Salonga

[Joker reads the newspaper] The Joker: "Winged freak terrorizes"? Wait till they get a load of me!

Batman

I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading novels. It took quite a long time for me to realize there are better ways.

Cynthia Kenyon

As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going to be very meaningful in your own mental scrapbook.

Gary Ross

You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

Gary Shteyngart

I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself.

George Stephen

Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.

Italo Calvino

I just read that Time magazine cover story with all this information about how you have to have your kids by the time you're 12 or it's all over. Please.

Jill Clayburgh

It's a shame, but every time I get something scientific in the script, I read up to find out what I'm talking about - but then I'm on to the next script and it's forgotten.

Jim Parsons

I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook.

Kamala Harris