Because Quote by Adam Ross Download Open image “Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.” — Adam Ross ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Because Books End time Fiction Get Part People Personally Read Spend Spend time Time Who
I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
I don't like to read fiction. I like to learn something when I'm reading. — Lewis Hamilton Copy Share Image
I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things. — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
I tend not to read fiction - I'll read one novel a year during the summer - but I do read a lot of… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy. — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
“He closed his eyes, shook his head. If he could get her alone somewhere, somewhere completely private, he'd kill her. He would break a… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
The best compliment came from Knopf's Sonny Mehta. We were at lunch in New York with my editor, Gary Fisketjon, it was my first… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
I play golf, but sometimes it's so un-relaxing, I have to play tennis to wind down. Now that I think about it, this process… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
“...in response to whatever Alice was struggling with, whatever had caused her to withdraw from him, he had chosen the arms of another woman… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
“Everyone should be lucky enough to be loved for a long time. To know what that was like--to be loved and to change, to be privileged to suffer it, to remain. To know, as she did, that there was only one person she could ever love. To know it incontrovertibly. To accept it, with all the attendant limits. Once you… — Adam Ross Copy Share
I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to tap into… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the knowledge as… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
I'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end - the scene where the patient says goodbye to the doctor and she puts a flower in her hair as a kind of thank you to him - and I felt like a cowboy shot from a canyon's top.… — Adam Ross Copy Share
'Mr. Peanut' is not about a man who dreams of killing his wife; that's jacket copy, to me. 'Mr. Peanut' is about the dynamism… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
By examining characters lighting the way to hell, as it were, are readers spared iniquity? Are stories a heeded warning, or merely an entertainment?… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
I studied Hitchcock and Josef von Sternberg under Richard Dillard at Hollins, and that year under his tutelage just completely rewired my brain. Both… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
“The thoughts just before the event are like the fortune in the cookie. The fortune's as random as the thought.” — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
There were songs that we cut out after we chose the name, because 'Praise Break' turned out to be an underlying concept that I… — Daniel Caesar Copy Share Image
It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings. — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
I believe in taxation and health care that is outside the usual libertarian mandate, because I don't want people to have to suffer. It's… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
I didn't want to do 'Fashion Police' because I thought, 'This is stupid, this is beneath me, who wants to talk about fashion?' It… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image