I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.
One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.
Reading is one of the best ways to bond with your child. Bond this Christmas with “It’s Not About You, Mr. Santa Claus
I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.
The Greatest” is a bite-your-tongue-book. Ultimately a tragic tale it is also immensely uplifting and easily the best footballer biography I have ever read.
Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample.
I read that a lot of people think I'm gay. I don't care. My boyfriend and I are not really phased by what people say.
I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.
When you read a holy book, you emphasize that God exists. When you see people, you sympathize their existence.
Now I walk around with my head down, trying to hide, thinking that everybody knows that I inflicted people with HIV, because that is all they are going to read.
I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.
I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.
I didn't even realize how much reading meant to me until I stopped, and my world just fell apart.
I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels.
I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.
When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.
If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.
I have a stack of scripts that I've read - I'm in the lucky position where I get offered things - but I haven't wanted to direct many of them.
If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.
As an actor, there are many confusing factors that can make you take or not take a decision. It becomes difficult. Your first and last checkpoint should be the story. I always read a script as an audience.
I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.
