I try to read as much as I can - all the time, really. And I absolutely love going to the cinema, especially during the day.
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.
I can read people, and if the other person doesn't want to say anything, I'm fine with that. People say things when it's time to say them.
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
Some novel lovers have no interest in comics, and some comics fans would never take the time to read a novel.
I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.
I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading books.
I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.
The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.
Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night.
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.'
In general, I've been treated well by reviews, and there are times when I haven't. The truth is that I've come to feel like I'm better off without reading them.
Alex: No time for the old in-n-out, love, I've just come to read the meter.
Newspapers and magazines are vanishing. But science writers are not. In fact, they are becoming so adept and varied that I hardly have time to read 'Gawker' anymore.
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
When I first read 'Lord of the Rings,' I wanted to see a film of it. But at that time, the technology wasn't there; there was no such thing as CGI.
I read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I'd be very, very happy.
My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
