If I don't need the money, I don't work. I'm going to spend time with my family and friends, and I'm going… — James Spader Copy Share Image
The initial research will be very indiscriminate. I do a lot of reading, buy a stack of books and read and digest… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
On the one hand I wonder, Was this really my story to tell? On the other hand, I just wanted the story… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Serial tasking is hard because switching tasks is hard, even when the tasks are easy and similar. In some experiments, bilingual speakers… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a… — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even… — Bille August Copy Share Image
Writing is my way of diving deep into an issue. My approach is to watch, read and listen - sometimes for years… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
I didn't read many comics as a kid - I've always been a really fast reader, and I would fly through a… — Jane Wiedlin Copy Share Image
“Therefore, we read the Bible selectively. We pick a text here and there to fit our felt needs. This is like a… — John Piper Copy Share Image
In my world, I read resumes upside down, so I start with personal interests. So if somebody doesn't have believable, interesting interests,… — Bing Gordon Copy Share Image
I think people respond to dystopian stories because they're ways of acting out anxieties that we have and fears that we have… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I receive emails from readers that both break my heart and give me a profound sense of connection. Several months ago, I… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
Read! Read! Read! And then read some more. When you find something that thrills you, take it apart paragraph by paragraph, line… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
I've had letters from people who have read my articles and said, 'I'm a guy, I'm 18, and I've not come out… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Now I'll read anytime, anywhere. I love reading in front of the space heater. Isn't that a sad confession? But it's like… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
When I was young, I kept trying to read 'Moby-Dick', and I couldn't get that far into it. And I kept thinking,… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't want to work just for the sake of working. Generally, if a good script comes in, I read it, and… — Alison Doody Copy Share Image
In whatever adulation you get, there's truth and there's not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
A good story's like a door, and you can go through it whenever you need to. After you've read it or seen… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I got interested in the Vikings, and then you realize that there isn't much to be read about them because they did… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Whatever comedian says he doesn't read comments, I never believe him, because we all have the same pathological problem to see what… — Joe Mande Copy Share Image
I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a… — Lorde Copy Share Image
“A knowledgeable citizen is a powerful citizen because knowledge is power! Make your nation a powerful one... Keep reading to acquire more… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“I submit a body of facts which cannot be invalidated. My opinions may be doubted, denied, or approved, according as they conflict… — William Beaumont Copy Share Image
My rule of writing is that no one can do what you can do, so jealousy or competitiveness are pointless. I am… — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time in my bed. It's a good comfy one with a tartan bedspread. It's the only place… — Martin Millar Copy Share Image
You can read books on stuff all day long, but until you get out there and just do it, if you want… — Christian Kane Copy Share Image
We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but… — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Gym traumaramas can happen to anyone. One time, I brought a packet of papers to read while jogging on the treadmill. Right… — Jenna Ushkowitz Copy Share Image
I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
One of the things about having worked at certain places is that it becomes very hard after you stop working at them… — Michael Wolf Copy Share Image
