We had 1 book, the phone book, I've read it, it wasn't a…

“So this book is my phone call--not from the top of a mountain, or even the top of the Eiffel Tower: the "here" is…

— Eloisa James

I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access.

— Ayana Mathis

We shuffle out of office buildings after being laid-off by draconian bosses; we sit on hold for ten minutes only to be told by…

— Alexander Weinstein

With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.

— Jonathan Nolan

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just…

— Terry Pratchett

I like to keep a broad scope and read lots of different things with lots of different types of characters. Doing that is going…

— Asa Butterfield

I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.

— Emily Watson

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry

— Amber Tamblyn

I don't want my work to be issue-based. I want people to be able to read it in lots of different ways.

— Cornelia Parker

I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.

— Harvey Pekar

Interviewing Hugh McIlvanney, I got to read lots of his stuff again. I'm a big fan of his writing.

— Sebastian Coe

“I read through the phone book once, never mind when, and it satisfied a deep need in me to realize how many people aren’t…

— Sylvia Plath

You could sing the phone book!

— Randy Jackson

I think if Roman Polanski had asked me to do the phone book, I would have said, 'Yes.'

— Pierce Brosnan

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.

— Andy Rooney