If I’m reading a book that doesn’t leave me with questions, moving questions, that I feel confronted with, then for me it’s a waste of time. I don’t want to read a book that simply confirms what I already know.
Normally, what I do for fun is just nothing. I try to just relax. Normally, it involves just relaxing and reading and maybe going out and meeting up with a friend. I live a very simple existence. I would much rather just sit around and listen to a couple of records and read the paper.
Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you’re seeing the movie, you know it’s something different.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.
I like things to be really, really funny, or really, really dramatic. Those books are certainly the ones that grab me. I like the exercise of reading through a paragraph, and it’s just torture. I try not to have my eyes dart to the right. That’s the stuff that I love.
I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.
We might be on the same page, but I wasn’t happy about reading it.
You don’t have to care about children to care about children. One of the things that I talk a lot about is the fact of the importance of third-grade reading level. By the end of third grade, if the child is not at reading level, it’ll drop off. They never catch up.
Mom’s a writer, so I grew up reading scripts and I have a real respect for them and I know how much thought goes into creating a role, so I’m always interested to find out what was the thought process of the writer and how best can I convey it rather than trying to change it to suit myself.
Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.
Dad said I would always be “high minded and low waged” from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.
I grew up reading SF in the 70s and 80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.
I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.
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.
Reading is a gymnasium for the imagination where people can work out, get ready for the shocks of existence. For me, the intimate teachers have not only taught me how to make things, they have represented some qualities of mind and mindfulness that I would like to have.
It’s definitely a thing to be sitting there, getting a pedicure, and you look over and someone is reading an article about an aspect of your life that you know is not true. It’s weird, it’s uncomfortable, but I don’t see it changing anytime soon, so I should figure a way to laugh through it.
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.