I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.'
It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.
'Heartbreak House' was a lot of fun for me. I must have missed that day at school. I'd never read it or seen it. It's one of those things that a lot of people are familiar with.
I'm always in search of those books where you don't want to stop reading, and 'Me Before You' is at the top of that list.
You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading.
Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate.
I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections.
I can think of a number of things more interesting to read about than tax law, but few things affect our lives more.
When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually didn't know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.
The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.
Looks aren't a big thing to me. I keep reading these articles in fan magazines about me, and I don't even know who they're talking about. It's boring.
When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what made them successful.
Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him.
My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.
My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.
It was so exciting to go to the record shop and buy a piece of vinyl and hold it, read the liner notes, look at the pictures. Even the smell of the vinyl.
