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I'm a firm believer in reading actual books.

Madelaine Petsch

Reading Firm Books Believer Actual

I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to 'Brokeback Mountain'. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I'm glad I did.

Mountain Reading Blind Doing Task

I can't stand reading anything that I've said.

Reading Stand Said Anything

I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.

Ebon Moss-Bachrach

Reading Better Learn Actor See How

I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.

Love Time Love Is Writing Reading

I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.

Coffee Writing Reading Walking Long

I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.

Jack W. Szostak

Success Hope Reading Learn Doing

I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

Barbara Corcoran

Words School Reading Help Back Way

I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.' At the same time, I read an enormous number of American comics because Shanghai was an American zone of influence.

Time Childhood Influence Reading

Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Karin Slaughter

Life Happiness Reading Liberty Equal

Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing. So, reading Tolstoy several times - 'War and Peace,' 'The Kreutzer Sonata' - all those were really important to me.

Peace War Me Writing Reading You

As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.

Karin Slaughter

Reading Survival Human Would Like

Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

Imagination Child Door Reading You

Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky.

Kate Christensen

Reading Story Think Bag You Out

I was a very sickly kid and suffered from chronic pneumonia, which is why we moved to the warm southern climate. I think being ill contributed to my development as a writer. I learned early on to entertain myself by reading.

Myself Reading Think Warm Early Why

I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.

Home Me Bond Reading Thought Said

One year, I was a patron of a new opera. It was, to put it kindly, unpleasant to the ear. The friends I went with hated it. Keeping quiet about my contribution, I was outed when one of them, reading the program at the restaurant during dinner, saw my name.

Dinner Reading Name Restaurant Year

During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.

Life Childhood City Reading Library

I have a strong work ethic, yet I'm incredibly lazy as well. The problem with being a writer is that everything you do can be called research. Sitting in the pub is research. Reading the newspaper can be research.

Work Research Reading Strong Problem

I majored in drama and theater arts at Columbia and was always in acting studio, but that was a liberal arts degree, not a bachelor of arts degree, so I didn't have a traditional conservatory training. There was a lot of reading and a lot of writing involved, and only about 30 percent of my classes were directly theater-related.

Training Writing Reading Acting Arts

One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.

H. P. Lovecraft

Reading Important Always Vocabulary

I did grow up reading the 'Twilight' books. I feel guilty, but I was always Team Edward.

Team Reading Grow Feel Guilty Up

Especially if you're endeavouring daily to write your own books, you read with a degree of - well, it's hard to forget you're a writer when you're reading.

Daily Reading You Forget Write Hard

Reading isn't about managing expectations. In certain ways, writing is. You're trying to send signals early in a book about what might be coming later, but I think worrying about the kind of chatter around a book is something I try and stay as far away from when I'm reading.

Garth Risk Hallberg

Writing Book Reading Think You Kind

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