Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction.
I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.
I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.
I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You can't rely on readers.
I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.
What is a literary festival? Imagine a sort of cross between school and church. There are no actual festivities; what there are is a lot of public readings.
When asked, 'What is more important: praying or reading the Bible?' I ask, 'What is more important: breathing in or breathing out?
When asked what's more important, praying or reading the Bible? I ask, what's more important breathing in or breathing out?
Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.
Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.
The journey is the mystery…the destination the answer. If you don’t have a happy ending yet, you have not finished reading the right book.
I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.
Interviewing Hugh McIlvanney, I got to read lots of his stuff again. I'm a big fan of his writing.
When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.
In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it.
You know how when you read a book and it becomes a movie, and it's different than you pictured? In some ways, acting is a lot like that.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.'
Reading stimulates the imagination and a good imagination can change the world in the most splendid of ways.
read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.
