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But I also think that once you've found stuff that works, stop reading forums, stop reading reviews and just get out there and play.
Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights
My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
Cheever constantly voiced doubts about his writing. Reading 'The Naked and the Dead' made him despair of his own 'confined talents.'
I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.
Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.
I love reading epic fantasies and big fat books and so I really wanted to write one. I think you always write what you want to read.
We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books
Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other.
Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.
We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.
I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real.
I'm not ever getting a Pulitzer prize and my books aren't on high school reading lists, but for better or worse I'm a working writer.
The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all so flowery and heavenlike.
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Nothing replaces being in the same room, face to face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.
Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book always makes it easier.
The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.
You look at Vladimir Radmanovic, this guy is cut from stone. As if Michelangelo was reading and a lightening bolt flashed before him.
I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.
There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put it on a table.
Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world around you.
What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps.
I love reading scripts and offering notes and opinions. I'd like to be an advocate for the emerging filmmakers whom I'm working with.
On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.
I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic book romance.
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.
I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading.
The first fantasy books I can remember reading were 'The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek' and the series of 'Mushroom Planet' books.
Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.
I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
We do not truly own our thoughts or experiences until we have negotiated them with ourselvesand for this writing is the prime medium.
Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.
I remember reading Disturbia, one of the first scripts I ever got, and I go "Pfft, who wants to make a movie about a guy in a house?"
I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.
I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back and let it.
He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read.
Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.
The thing about me and books is that whichever one I’m reading always reminds me of whatever’s happening in my life during that time.
My grandfather is hard of hearing. He needs to read lips. I don't mind him reading lips, but he uses one of those yellow highlighters.
For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.
Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.