‘Sanctus’ was done on speculation. I had no agent or publisher. I was being sensible, I suppose, by writing a standalone novel. I figured if that one didn’t work, no one would be interested in reading a sequel. – Simon Toyne
My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it’s boring, if people aren’t listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do. – Victoria Aveyard
I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband has told me repeatedly. He has even suggested that my rapacious reading resembles an addiction. – Siri Hustvedt
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. – Ursula K. Le Guin
As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner up in Northern California, and all the political New Journalism stuff, the Boys on the Bus dudes and Ken Kesey. – Stephen Gaghan
I was asked to do a reading of ‘G.B.F.’ and I loved the script. I thought it was one of the most amazing things I’d read, but it took a year to get a green light for production. – Sasha Pieterse
The biggest kick is reading something new and exciting and then getting other people to share your enthusiasm. Beyond all the cant and hypocrisy in publishing, that’s what it’s all about. – Sonny Mehta
I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading. – Tony Hillerman
People still try to sell books that way – as ‘books can take you to foreign lands.’ We’ve given children this idea that reading and books are a nice option, if you want that kind of thing. I hope we can get over that idea. – Walter Dean Myers
At a certain point, you try to avoid reading feedback or blogs because there’s always the risk of reading some sort of negative stuff that can be hard to hear. – Sara Ramirez
It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear. – Steven Wright
To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I’ve got books I need to read. – Vivienne Westwood
I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the ‘Hindustan Times.’ – Vikas Swarup
Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard. – Susie Bright
I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing, and cozy chats to group settings. – Susan Cain
I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math. – Ursula Burns
I became an inventor by accident. I was out of the Air Force in 1956. No, no, that’s not true: I went in in 1956, came out in 1959, was working at the University of Washington, and I came up with an idea, from reading a magazine article, for a new kind of a phonograph tone arm. – Woody Norris
I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It’s one of those places I’d always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts. – Tony Parsons
As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don’t deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that. – Stanley Crouch
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. – Terry Bradshaw
After working with many nutritionists, reading books, and practicing trial and error on my own body, I have finally found a way to control my weight without deprivation. I call my program ‘Somersizing,’ and Somersizing is not a diet. Diet is a nasty four-letter word that conjures up negative thoughts of sacrifice and obsession and guilt. – Suzanne Somers
After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve. – Wilfred Owen
Part of the process of reading is constantly hitting the pause button, and now and then the rewind button, to ponder a word that’s been chosen by the author as exquisitely as the filmmaker chooses an image or a sound editor chooses a sonic clue – the tolling of a bell in the distance to evoke memory, for instance. – Steve Erickson
