Book Quote by Salman Rushdie

If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's…

— Dave Van Ronk

I think reading an audiobook is a real skill - for one thing, you have to be able to do impressions and voices, which…

— Tara Westover

I've never been able to read for anything, and every time I have, I've never gotten the part. And I don't know why that…

— Michael Madsen

Successful tape reading is a study of Force; it requires ability to judge which side has the greatest pulling power and one must have…

— Richard Wyckoff

When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

— Mercedes McCambridge

I think there are a lot of actors who are excellent at cold reads, and they go to an audition, and they read the…

— Jeff Baena

The whole point of reading is that the writer is speaking to you, and if you're not listening, you're not going to have any…

— Nick Hornby

Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.

— Stephen Ambrose

Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk--performs…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

— Mercedes McCambridge

I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance.

— Paul Lansky