Reads Quotes

442 Reads quotes by 370 unique authors

Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am. — Roland Barthes
I'm not a big fan of table reads or sitting around a table and reading a script. I'd rather do it on set and do… — Donnie Wahlberg
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, "What does this represent? What does it… — Steven Pressfield
I really care about my readers. I care about anyone who reads my books. — Jan Karon
All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to… — Meg Cabot
Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card… — John Grisham
A lot of music fans are still interested in insightful perspectives on music - maybe even more interested than ever, since everyone needs help making… — Michael Azerrad
The head coach don't want no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses. — Allan Sherman
Many times, when a director reads a script and wants somebody who says 'Far out', then they let me do what I want with it… — Katherine Helmond
I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
For me, I've always been one that reads a script and has been ready, wiling and able to go out and fight for parts. — Chris Klein
If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or… — Nicole Krauss
The Greatest Pregnancy Ever is a treasure. It should be the very first thing a pregnant woman reads - in fact, every woman who intends… — Christiane Northrup
Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of Evolution he has… — Dean H. Kenyon
I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave off… — Charles Kimbrough
I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books. — Jason Momoa
The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life the dominant characteristic is that it is unafraid. If is unafraid of… — Raymond B. Fosdick
Creation is a book proclaiming the Creator. It is a book of beauty that our intellect reads, but through the passageways of our five senses. — Thomas Dubay
The value of the things is not in themselves autonomously, but that God made them, and thus they deserve to be treated with high respect.… — Francis Schaeffer
My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma.… — Christopher Bollen
I hate table reads. I hate anything where you have to say the words out loud. — Charlize Theron
A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the past five years… — Dave Barry
What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads. — Robert Southey
Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half. — Gore Vidal

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