A good part of the work is just reading a manuscript and coming to the office. I can’t imagine wanting to even read an article about book publishing. – Sonny Mehta
At the same time, reading an action script… It makes me wonder. Was The Matrix a good script? I don’t know. – Shane West
I know you’re supposed to hide your influences, but I suppose I see writing as riffing, really, about whatever you have been reading or thinking about that day or that week. – Steve Toltz
I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It’s pretty wild. I hadn’t heard of it until I was in college. – Tom Perrotta
The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me – in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I’d take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this. – Sally Mann
I look at scripts, and sometimes I apply theory to them. For ‘Antiviral,’ for example, I was reading Laura Mulvey’s ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,’ and it was all about the psychological process by which we fetishize the female image. It’s all about scopophilia. – Sarah Gadon
I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way – you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what’s going to happen at the end. But that doesn’t mean you know what’s going to happen in the middle. For me, it’s that sense of what happens in the middle that’s important. – Scarlett Thomas
I don’t want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it’s a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you’re going to suffer. There’s a difference to be made – and you can make it if you read with your child. – Walter Dean Myers
When I was 23, I went to work for Jack Nicholson reading scripts. Later, I was married to a production designer named Richard Sylbert. So I lived in Los Angeles for ten years. – Susanna Moore
The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that’s powerful. – Taylor Swift
Education is gathering information and reading… No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you – the important thing is that you get it. – Victor LaValle
My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books. – Tony Judt
And I’m auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I’m reading right now for a horror film, and I’m meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them. – Trishelle Cannatella
‘Star Wars’ is something that I’ve been a fan of since I was a kid – I played all the video games and I grew up reading ‘Star Wars’ books. – Samuel Witwer
Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still so many more books to read. I’m a work in progress. – Sarah Addison Allen
Read more. Read every time you go to bed; read in the day – because at least, reading a book, you can’t be distracted by anything else. – Theo James
I’ve been reading titles from IDW for probably as long as they’ve been in existence. ‘Ninja Turtles’ is one of my all-time favorite properties ever. I also love, love, love ‘Locke & Key.’ I also love some of the things they do with pre-existing properties like ‘Transformers’ and ‘Ghostbusters.’ – Taran Killam
I don’t read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there’s too much reading and not enough thinking. – Vikram Seth
One of my intentions with ‘Rookie’ is for the girls reading it to know that they are already cool enough and smart enough and pretty enough. – Tavi Gevinson
You can’t judge an album by a single song; it’s like judging a book by only reading a single chapter. – Trevor Rabin
It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are. – Stuart Woods
Basically, I learned to read by reading ‘Peanuts,’ just wanting to know what they were saying. – Stephan Pastis
Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading. – Tyler Hilton
My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories. – Sarah Addison Allen
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings. – W. E. B. Du Bois
I like reading books with both hands, with my heart pumping, with blood on the page. So I’m interested in people who make stuff, and I’m interested in the lives that make the text. To read a book or watch a movie any other way, to me, personally, feels like a waste of time and misapplication of energy. – Tom Bissell
I’ve been reading about the idea of cyclical lives – it matches up to the idea of string theory and a multiverse. So I wanted to write a record about that instead of another song about broken hearts and drinking. – Sturgill Simpson
