For a child, reading a book can be such an intense experience.
Michelle Paver
ExperienceChildBookReading
We can't deny that films have a bigger reach. After the popularity of the 'Slumdog Millionaire,' a lot of people started reading Vikas Swarup's 'Q & A'. From a business sense, films are a good tool to increase the number of readers.
Ashwin Sanghi
GoodBusinessPeopleReadingReach
You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.
Justin Cronin
ReadingLearnYouWritePrettyWide
I couldn't tell you a good, bad or ugly pilot just from reading it, but I can tell you a character I want to play.
Jim Parsons
GoodCharacterUglyReadingYouBad
I'm just thinking I'm just like a normal actor who gets scripts, and I read them, and... if I enjoy reading them, then that's what's exciting, then I get excited about the audition or the project itself.
Alan Tudyk
ReadingThinkingEnjoyActorProject
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
ReadingTelevisionMeetingYesterday
Fundamentalism does mean reading quite conservatively and literally, saying 'the Bible is the word of God and we have to follow it. What it says is this.'
Elaine Pagels
GodSayingBibleReadingFollow
I'm not a big fan of table reads or sitting around a table and reading a script. I'd rather do it on set and do it for real.
Donnie Wahlberg
ReadingTableSittingRealBigFan
I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.
Richard Powers
PastReadingRememberJournalYears
Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease.
Eula Biss
ReadingDiseaseOurAboutReally
Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things others do.
Matthew Tobin Anderson
AmazingReadingLearnYouSometimes
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
FamilyChildReadingLovedChristian
Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.
Michael Morpurgo
ChildrenSchoolReadingLearnWant
I did a 20-minute selection of scenes from the play 'Spring Awakening' in college, well before the musical came around, so when the musical was becoming a hot thing, and I was reading interviews with Duncan Sheik about how he came to do the music, I think it's interesting.
Allison Tolman
MusicSpringCollegeReadingThink
I remember reading about Mae Jemison, that astronaut. That was immensely fantastic to me. This woman went to the moon!
Juliana Rotich
WomanMeMoonReadingRemember
People in my town were not that into reading, but the overblown way Texans told stories was important.
Joe R. Lansdale
PeopleReadingImportantWayStories
No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.
Alan Arkin
TimeParentingReadingYouMatter
I remember starting to read about the Soviet Union when I was eight years old; I think I was reading my father's 'New York Times.'
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
FatherNew YorkReadingThinkNew
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch
LoveWomenMenPeopleReadingFeel
I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope 'A Discovery of Witches' will serve as a kind of stepping-stone.
Deborah Harkness
LoveHopeReadingGenerationKind
In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.
Nikola Tesla
TimePerfectionReadingBetterPlace
I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader.
Eoin Colfer
MeBookReadingThinkLovedAlways
I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance.
Matt Groening
GoodFutureScienceWaitReading
People who would never sneer at sci-fi and murder mysteries have no trouble damning the whole romance genre without reading one.
Lauren Willig
PeopleReadingTroubleNeverRomance
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