I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family - poor, in fact.
Madhur Bhandarkar
FamilyHabitMeReadingClassPoor
I'm reading scripts just like everybody else. Tin cup in hand, knocking on doors, trying to get a job. It's tough. They don't make as many films these days, and there's a lot of guys that are fighting for jobs.
D. J. Cotrona
JobToughReadingFightingDoors
I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
Larry David
MeReadingThinkInterestingEven
I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.
Ed Oxenbould
LoveTimeDayMeBookReading
I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
Lana Del Rey
LoveGoodReadingStoryBeenNine
Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.
Barry Jenkins
WorkFunnyMeCoolReadingThink
I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
Jack Vance
ReadingEverythingReadEver
I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible.
Barbara Ehrenreich
BibleReadingEnoughYouKnowGet
We need to think about how we teach working-class children about not just hard skills, like reading and mathematics, but also soft skills, like conflict resolution and financial management.
J. D. Vance
ChildrenMathematicsConflictReading
I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books.
Karin Slaughter
LifePassionTimeReadingLibrary
I don't know why people do not read 'Mein Kampf' more regularly. It tells you first-hand about all the narcissism; you see that collapse in German culture. There is no chance that anyone could become a Nazi by reading that book.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
CulturePeopleBookChanceReading
My sister lived in England for a while when I was 12, and I came to visit her, and I spent most of the time in her flat reading.
TimeSisterReadingLivedHerMost
As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that.
Kate Bernheimer
ReadingHelpComingExcitedNotice
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
Kate DiCamillo
ChildrenGiftReadingDutyChore
Whenever I am with a group of kids, I always ask them, 'How many of you know about the summer reading program at your library and how many of you know it's free?' Spreading that sort of message comes very naturally to me.
I AmMeFreeReadingLibraryYou
There's a whole stereotype of the jazz musician that's into poetry and reading and metaphysics and all that stuff. Really, it's a sign of someone who's searching, whose mind is open, looking for answers. Whatever ideas you may come up with, the beautiful thing is the search.
Kamasi Washington
BeautifulPoetryMindIdeasReading
At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized.
Karen DeCrow
BookReadingLearnCountryImportant
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
Irving Babbitt
QualityDayWorldReadingPresent
I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.
Ice Cube
StartReadingThinkLearnTrying
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.
Harold Bloom
LovePassionStartReadingCriticism
I just preach the importance of reading, the importance of learning and challenging yourself to be the best you can be in life, whatever it is you do.
Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
LifeLearningBestYourselfReading
I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.
Hamish Bowles
FashionLookingStartReadingVogue
I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
Patrick deWitt
ReadingBecomeOverYearsPlot
For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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