Reading Quotes - Page 22

• My role is to promote the authors image and their new books. I'm also brought on board when the author is "between books" to keep the name in front of the reading public. That's a challenging time for an author.

  Tom Robinson

  Book, Names, Challenges

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• Poetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that convey factual information - facts, more than just the surfaces of things.

  Jonathan Lethem

  People, Musical, Information

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience. To read is intimate. It's almost masturbatory.

  Jonathan Lethem

  May, Matter, Way

  Interview with Paul Auster, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• I've stopped reading the comments below news articles and on gossip blogs because those are the ones that'll ruin your day in a second.

  Taylor Swift

  Gossip, News, Ruins

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• A lot of times, you're not necessarily off the page because you haven't been able to take the time to prepare a character. It's very easy to find even great actors reading it more like a reading. Things aren't really coming alive yet, even though you know they will.

  Gus Van Sant

  Character, Actors, Alive

  Source: collider.com

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• You can't ever let yourself be thrown by a camera. That's never good for an actor. When you're reading the script, you want to work with someone you trust so there's nothing to worry about.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Worry, Cameras, Actors

  "‘Hunger Games’ Star Jennifer Lawrence Talks Playing Katniss Everdeen". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. March 12, 2012.

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• I can never tell what's going to end up being on an album until it's all finished. I'm reading the news everyday, and sometimes I just have to be away from it. And that ends up writing the songs for me a little bit.

  Jack Johnson

  Song, Writing, Everyday

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• When I write on Twitter, I do other things: I'm working, grading, or reading, and I'm procrastinating, and I'll pop on Twitter and be like, "Hey, what's up? Yogurt's delicious."

  Roxane Gay

  Writing, Hey, Yogurt

  "Roxane Gay Will Make You Proud to Be a Bad Feminist". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. July 24, 2014.

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• With my writing, I generally just pretend that no one's reading it. I allow myself that delusion so that I can write the things that I write.

  Roxane Gay

  Writing, Delusion, I Can

  "Roxane Gay Will Make You Proud to Be a Bad Feminist". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. July 24, 2014.

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• Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always have trouble making friends. And so reading and writing allowed me to have friends and to have an active imaginary life that really sort of kept me sane.

  Roxane Gay

  Lonely, Children, Writing

  "Roxane Gay Will Make You Proud to Be a Bad Feminist". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. July 24, 2014.

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• I want people to read good work. If I see someone reading a book by Lorrie Moore or Jennifer Egan, I'm psyched. If I see them reading X Latin American Writer Who Sucks, I'm not psyched. But in terms of news, I do think that's important.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Latin, Book, Thinking

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• As opposed to being on the Internet, there's something really nice about reading a book or talking to authors.

  Hans Zimmer

  Nice, Book, Talking

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I try not to read about myself. Why would reading about yourself be interesting? You're only going to be told you're doing a good job and get big headed about it, or be told you're rubbish and get down in the dumps. What's the point?

  Nicholas Hoult

  Jobs, Interesting, Trying

  "Interrogation: Nicholas Hoult". Interview with Lara Kilner, www.mirror.co.uk. February 2, 2008.

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• As actors you have this trait to imitate very easily. I don't want to imitate anything or limit myself of finding this creature, this woman because I'm looking at magazines and I'm reading comics, and I'm asking people that are avid readers of The Guardians.

  Zoe Saldana

  Avid, People, Actors

  "Zoe Saldana Talks Being Green for Four Months, Avoiding the Comics, and More on the Set of GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 8, 2014.

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• I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted that her children read. To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Mother, Children, Hate

  Interview with Tom Corcoran, bookpage.com. June 1998.

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• Sometimes to write you need to do more than just appear at your desk-you need to take care of the part of you that dreams and imagines and creates. Reading can usually do this for writers, but sometimes you also need to watch films, listen to music, go to an art museum, or see a play. Or just sit outside and soak up the sky.

  Barbara Abercrombie

  Dream, Art, Writing

  Barbara Abercrombie (2012). “A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement”, p.185, New World Library

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• Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour.

  Clive James

  School, Glamour, Bans

  "Clive James on turning his ‘last time on earth’ into a writing wellspring". Interview with Ellen Rolfes, December 3, 2013.

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• I used to be very disciplined about only buying three books ahead of what I was reading, but my husband corrupted me, and now I'm dozens ahead of myself!

  Gretchen Rubin

  Husband, Book, Three

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You're reading as someone who wants to enjoy the book but also, as a writer, noticing the techniques that the writer uses and especially the ones that make you want to turn the page to see what happened.

  Homer Hickam

  Book, Track, Technique

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

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• When I was young, I didn't like to read. I would have much rather been outside doing something than been inside reading about it.

  Tony Dungy

  Young

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• I read a random issue when I was a kid, but no, I wasn't super familiar with the characters [Captain Victory] until I started researching them. What I found once I started reading back issues however, was this crazy, sprawling, [Jack] Kirby space epic.

  Sterling Gates

  Crazy, Character, Kids

  Source: www.comicvine.com

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• If a carpenter makes a chair that's comfortable for the person who's going to sit in it, he's done his job. If a train engineer gets a train in on time, he's going to make someone happy who's waiting at the station. And if an artist draws the kind of a picture that people are going to enjoy looking at, or he makes a visual story which people are going to enjoy reading, he's done his job.

  Jack Kirby

  Jobs, Artist, Make Someone Happy

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• I believe people have a little more interest in reading what I'm saying or hearing me speak because they know I ain't gonna sugarcoat it. Because I give them the truth.

  Curtis Jackson

  Believe, People, Giving

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• At 42,000' in approximately level flight, a third cylinder was turned on. Acceleration was rapid and speed increased to .98 Mach. The needle of the machmeter fluctuated at this reading momentarily, then passed off the scale. Assuming that the off-scale reading remained linear, it is estimated that 1.05 Mach was attained at this time.

  Chuck Yeager

  Cylinders, Levels, Aviation

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• I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So I had done a great deal of reading. I suppose I was more at home in Greenwich Village than, say, any of classmates from Warsaw High School. But in any case, it was an overwhelming experience for me. It took me some time to begin to assimilate it.

  Tom Robbins

  School, Home, Age

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