I'm an amateur, so I read what's interesting to me.

If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or…

— Harold Brodkey

“People who read always have something interesting to say.”

— Anonymous

Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it's…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“It is odd, isn’t it? Whenever I read something interesting, I tear out a piece and keep it as a talisman until I find…

— Mohsin Hamid

I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.

— Chelsea Cain

“Amateur: One reckless enough to risk being interesting.”

— David Barringer

My kid is seven years old and is learning to read and conjugate, but I don't agree with that kind of education because I…

— Ana Tijoux

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do…

— James Agate

My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but the acting…

— Ciaran Hinds

I did a musical when I was 17, an amateur show, and I loved it.

— Taron Egerton

“The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don't like it.”

— Alan Sheinwald

Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of…

— Marshall McLuhan

Every artist was first an amateur.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think most amateurs dread playing a 180-plus-yard par 3 even more than a hard par 4. Part of it is psychological: You think…

— Ernie Els

“The amateur doesn't appreciate the need for experimentation. He wants his experts to know.”

— B.F. Skinner