When I began, poetry was very academic. You published little pamphlets from fancy presses. It was rather… chaste. There wasn’t much public reading. Then there was poetry and jazz, which I don’t think worked, though I love jazz. – John Fuller
As a kid, I was definitely a DC guy. I started reading big time in the ’80s at the height of the Wolfman/Perez ‘New Teen Titans.’ That was definitely the book that hooked me. – Jason Aaron
While the books I read as a child lacked diversity in the strict sense, they didn’t lack values. Reading, I didn’t see me externally, but I felt me – my humanity. – Jewell Parker Rhodes
What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time – and being able to call that ‘work!’ Also, of course, finding a gem of information that is either exactly what I was looking for, or else fits perfectly into the story in some way. – Linda Sue Park
From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew. – Miriam Margolyes
Anyone who’s been reading my stuff can see that there’s a lot of tracks being laid for future stories. – Jason Aaron
I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading. – Kevin Hart
I’m not reading reviews and critics. I don’t care. I guess I’m still a little on my own planet. – Lea Seydoux
I loved reading Grimm’s fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe that has something to do with having an incomplete family, being an only child. All I know is I loved to pretend, and all that was in tandem with my wanting to be an actress. – Lauren Bacall
People lose it when I say this, but I’m a novelist who doesn’t read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading novels! I’m also a game writer who doesn’t play games – I keep everything very separate. The only crossover with me is comics. I write them, and I read them passionately. – Karen Traviss
Playing football helped me a lot. Just reading the quarterback’s eyes and reading receivers, figuring out what they want to do. – Kawhi Leonard
Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve. – Kimberly Willis Holt
Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function. – Maynard James Keenan
I’m perfectly fine with the fact that lots of young folks are wanting to watch anime and read manga. I’m perfectly happy that they are doing things online, reading there as opposed to traditional print magazines. – John Scalzi
I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That’s the main reason I became a writer. – Linda Sue Park
Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien. – John Rhys-Davies
I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad. – Jonathan Hickman
I’m very impatient, and if I get a new piece of technology, no matter what it is – I recently got the iPhone, which is very exciting – I can’t be doing with reading manuals. I want it to work immediately and to do what I want it to do. – Kimberley Nixon
I have seen too many screenwriters of promise become formula addicts and slaves to stop watch structure. Spend that time watching movies, reading screenplays, reading plays, and most importantly – write from your gut. – John Fusco
I subscribe to ‘National Geographic,’ ‘Scientific American,’ ‘Discover,’ and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting ‘What if?’ will pop into my head. – James Rollins
About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, ‘Let’s do this!’ So I’m co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me. – Kerry Washington
The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation. – Leslie Charteris
Everyone who sits on a sofa watching ‘Match of the Day’ is a top soccer expert, as you know. So if you start to worry about such people reading your story and saying, ‘That’d never happen’ you’re going to freeze up. You’re writing fiction, and your characters can do whatever you need them to do. – Mal Peet
The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than mine, so I’ll just stick to reading lines off a page. – Kunal Nayyar
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. – Jean Rhys
I started reading G. K. Chesterton’s ‘The Man Who Was Thursday’ on a subway ride, almost missed my stop, and walked home thumbing pages. – Kate Christensen
I’ve just been reading about cycling. Yeah, I’m not that great at it but I like the challenge of it. – Joey Santiago
