There's a certain time in the core of making a movie from pre-production to halfway through post-production I don't read any project,… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
A friend of mine had his own theatre company, and he jumped me in like I was in a gang. And once… — David Alan Grier Copy Share Image
The other book that I worry no one reads anymore is James Joyce's Ulysses. It's not easy, but every page is wonderful… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher than it has ever… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Instead of a book, what if we're actually writing (or not writing) in the margins of our lives? What if our lives… — Patti Digh Copy Share Image
“Child, all books are magic. Just think,' he said, 'about what books make people do. People go to war on the basis… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything that I would really baulk at doing on-screen. I don't think so. I've got certain pet peeves… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding… — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I never read anything in print about me. It started with not reading reviews and with the greatest respect to my publicist… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
If [Bill Shawn] liked the piece, then he would run it. But he wanted the magazine to be something that was more… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“This is how it happens: you spend your life reading, reading, and reading more, waiting, waiting, and waiting for something to be… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“The dim, dusty room, with the busts staring down from the tall bookcases, the cozy chairs, the globes, and best of all,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Fictional characters exert a great deal of influence over our choices in love by representing inaccessible ideals to which we try to… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
“But what is a book? And what will change if we read onscreen rather than by turning the pages of a physical… — Jean-Philippe de Tonnac Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when I read, it's not just fiction while I'm between the pages. It’s real. My heart races when they kiss, and… — Emma Hart Copy Share Image
To retire by the age of 35 was my goal. I wasn't sure how I was going to get there though. I… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
'3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
Focused reading is so important, and I'm just as guilty as everyone. I have to force myself to slow down, often printing… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
“Holding a precious book meant to Mendel what an assignment with a woman might to another man. These moments were his platonic… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Students will read if we give them the books, the time, and the enthusiastic encouragement to do so. If we make them… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian… — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
“I have been investigating this modern problem of decline in readership and my conclusion is that it has little to do with… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
“The minute I was bored with a book or a subject I moved to another one, instead of giving up on reading… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“[...] We keep a record for every member, and for every customer who might yet become a member, in order to track… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
The only time I felt I was different was when one of my friends said, 'I hate reading' and I stared at… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
“Another time, talking about his books, the baroness confessed that she had never bothered to read any of them, because she hardly… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“As adults we choose our own reading material. Depending on our moods and needs we might read the newspaper, a blockbuster novel,… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
The point of reading is to inhabit a consciousness that doesn't belong to the reader, immersing yourself in a life that's wholly… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
Monkey Beach is a moody, powerful novel full of memorable characters. Reading it was like entering a pool of emerald water to… — Anita Rau Badami Copy Share Image
“...the love of reading grows as on gets older, but I'm not so sure if the enthusiasm I brought to reading when… — Dennis Smith Copy Share Image
You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
Thinking, not for the first time, that life should come with a trapdoor. Just a little exit hatch you could disappear through… — Michele Jaffe Copy Share Image
“Without knowing it, the adults in our lives practiced a most productive kind of behavior modification. After our chores and household duties… — Mildred Armstrong Kalish Copy Share Image
In a way, 'On the Road''s greatest victory is that nobody's eyes will be opened any longer by reading it; the last… — Tony D'Souza Copy Share Image
![“If [Bill Shawn] liked the piece, then he would run it. But he wanted the magazine to be something that was more than just a weekly event. And as a result you could pick up a New Yorker under him, as I mentioned before, a year from then or 10 years or 20 years and there would always be something…” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/158/nat-hentoff-1615_bills_if-bill-shawn-liked-the-piece-then-he-wo_1950058.jpg)
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