Quotes of: Time-reading Keyword

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

David Viscott

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

Gloria Swanson

I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the scripts I read in my acting life.

Joel Edgerton

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

James Joyce

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

John Ruskin

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

Mary J. Blige

Life is not a piece of tragic fiction in which, at the end of the reading, we all get up and go out for drinks.

Marianne Williamson

Learning to read clusters is not something your eyes do naturally. It takes constant practice.

Bill Cosby

I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.

Barry Hannah

Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.

Chris Bohjalian

I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.

Colleen McCullough

I fell in love with Shakespeare when I was 12, and I read the whole works. Yes, I was precocious.

Claire Tomalin

I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.

Dakota Fanning

My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.

Gale Gordon

When I'm on a set, and I'm in between a scene or on a plane waiting, I read Twitter and I love it.

Henry Winkler

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

Ira Glass

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

Jane Campion

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

James Patterson

Cakes are like books: There are new ones you want to read and old favorites you want to reread.

Ellen Rose

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Francis Bacon

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

Fay Godwin