Quotes of: Time-reading Keyword

While I'm writing YA, I can't read YA, and the same with adult. I usually only listen to music while I'm writing YA.

Jennifer Armentrout

I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad.

Olly Murs

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

Alan Dean Foster

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore', and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

Arturo Toscanini

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

Douglas Coupland

Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.

Siri Hustvedt

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Will Rogers

I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.

Chris Ware

You've read the Torah, right? So you know the Torah defines marriage as being between one man and one woman.

Josh Mandel

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

Jim Harrison

There are movies I've seen or books I've read that attach themselves in a way that's greater than the ability to understand why. How do you explain that kind of connectedness?

Peter Riegert

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

Vincent D'Onofrio

Ray: [reading Harry's profanity-ridden message] Geez, he's swears a lot, doesn't he?

In Bruges

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

Alain de Botton

I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred.

Adele

I'm very confident. Even when I read people saying horrible stuff about my weight.

Adele

I read a lot of autobiographical stories, and I write plays and prose. And I play piano and cello. A lot of my downtime is devoted to that.

Alexis Dziena

To be perfectly honest, I follow football the way I follow television. I read about it.

Alice Dreger

When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.

Annie Dillard

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

Annie Dillard

She reads books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

Annie Dillard