Reading Quotes - Page 23

• My parents read the comics to me, and I fell in love with comic strips. I've collected them all of my life. I have a complete collection of all the "Buck Rogers" Sunday funnies and daily paper strips, I have all of "Prince Valiant" put away, all of "Tarzan," which appeared in the Sunday funnies in 1932 right on up through high school. So I've learned a lot from reading comics as a child.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, School, Sunday

  "I Graduated from the Library: An Interview with Ray Bradbury". Interview with Brendan Dowling, publiclibrariesonline.org. November/December 2002.

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• Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Worth Reading, Ifs

  "I Graduated from the Library: An Interview with Ray Bradbury". Interview with Brendan Dowling, publiclibrariesonline.org. November/December 2002.

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• I'm not too concerned what happens to my books after I'm dead. But I am very concerned by what's going on with the culture of reading and writing nowadays.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Book, Writing, Culture

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• Whoever writes a bad review, I put their name on a list, and they're going to get taken care of one day down the road. Otherwise, I don't let it bother me. The truth is, these are review-proof movies. The audiences are going to see it. My audience, our audience, isn't reading Esquire magazine to see if my movie is good or not. They just want to laugh, to be entertained, and lose themselves.

  Brett Ratner

  Taken, Writing, Names

  "Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 7, 2007.

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• The experience of reading a novel and watching a television show are quite different. You can't let your audience get ahead of you, and you have to keep the energy and the pace and the drama up. They're very different things.

  Michelle Fairley

  Drama, Energy, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• Being a best-selling author just means the world for me. Some of my happiest memories, growing up, are being at book stores and reading books I couldn't afford, as a kid, and the midnight parties, waiting for the next Harry Potter book. The fact that I have that straw in my cap means more to me than anything I've ever accomplished before.

  Chris Colfer

  Memories, Growing Up, Book

  Source: collider.com

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• The biggest challenge for me, as an actor, is to be informed, prepared and focused, at the same time. I had to just keep on working, prepping, reading and imagining, all the way through, but the biggest challenge is always to let go of all that and just be open to others. That's what we do, as actor. We play with each other and we stimulate each other, and we have to be prepared to be stimulated by the other. That's always my big challenge.

  Hugo Weaving

  Letting Go, Play, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• As an actor, it's a relatively passive job unless you're generating your own content or writing your own content. So to a certain degree you're at the mercy of what is available, what you're reading, what you become passionate about, and ultimately, what people want to hire you for.

  Elijah Wood

  Jobs, Writing, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.

  Ted Cruz

  Blessed, Receiving, Scripture

  GOP debate, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• I probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature that's gone before that it's sort of like a fractal. It's gone to a level of detail that the average person could not possibly follow unless you're a fan. It iterates upon many prior generations of iterations.

  James Cameron

  Writing, Average, Fans

  "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20, 2010.

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• When I'm not actually doing my work, I'm planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are transformed into performance fantasies. I have no active interests. I never go anywhere or do anything that transports me outside the boundaries of my mind.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Mind, Levels

  Interview with Sam Merrill, reprints.longform.org. January 1982.

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• No matter how tight the shot is, if I'm narrating it too much, there's a barrier between you and the experience, because the process of reading a book, or watching a movie, or watching a play is that you're watching a dream.

  Clark Gregg

  Dream, Book, Play

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• To justify being listened to, I try to be as well informed as I can. Hence, the travel. Reading is good too. Reading gets you part way there, and I do read pretty voraciously for a guy who's trying to write so much.

  Henry Rollins

  Writing, Guy, Trying

  Source: lithiummagazine.com

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• Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.

  Laurie Anderson

  Symphony, Judging, Would Be

  The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. January, 2012.

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• Think about every time you've seen someone being objectified, abused, enslaved. We see it constantly on the TV, in magazines, on the Internet. We've become numb, so we do nothing. The accumulation of passivity might make reading about that exploitation uncomfortable. And sometimes when I'm writing, I think of it like this: "People seem to like garbage, so here is what garbage smells like..."

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Writing, Thinking, Smell

  "Go Forth (Vol. 36)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. August 25, 2015.

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• If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal: that is, the kind of person capable of competing at that level is necessarily very different from the rest of us physiologically. They are outliers.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Sports, Athlete, Class

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

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• That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Doe, Good Reading

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I think vampires have gotten maybe a little bit silly in the last years where they're all wearing crushed velvet and reading poetry and making sweet love to their victims, you know, it's not really all that scary.

  Josh Hartnett

  Sweet, Silly, Thinking

  "Interview: Josh Hartnett Talks 30 Days of Night". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. November 1, 2007.

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• After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch someone else fly and read of the narrow escapes from death when some pilot has had a forced landing or a blowout, than to ride himself. Even in the postwar days of now obsolete equipment, nearly all of the serious accidents were caused by inexperienced pilots who where then allowed to fly or attempt to fly-without license or restrictions about anything they could coax into the air.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Men, Light, Air

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• Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Writing, Editors, Reader

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• I'm always reading. I have four books on my nightstand right now. The same is true with writing, I tend to work on several varying projects at once.

  Colette Freedman

  Book, Writing, Four

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• I'm always reading. Here's where an ebook reader really comes into its own. When I travel, it allows me to carry a huge chunk of my library with me. Usually, when I am writing one project, I am researching the next or beginning to pull together the material for the book after that.

  Michael Scott

  Book, Writing, Library

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• I'm always writing - its what I like to do. But when I'm not writing, I'm reading.

  Michael Scott

  Writing

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• I began to think that the finest modern writer was the screen actor. This was in the spirit of the Fifties where a very antiliterary literature was emerging - Kenneth Patchen and others. I kind of believed what Nietzsche said, that nothing not written in your blood is worth reading; it's just more pollution of the airwaves.

  Jack Nicholson

  Thinking, Blood, Actors

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• I try as best I can to really put all I can into what I'm doing. A lot of days I fail and there's too much to do. I do think it's really important to have time to yourself, whether that's reading something interesting when the kids are in bed or even having a dog.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Dog, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.stylist.co.uk

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