You know how the best story angles often spring from that thought you have on reading an article or watching a show - that thought you have before the responsible journalist in you comes up with something boring. I usually recommend people get in touch with their deep 'reptilian brain.'
Nick Denton
BestSpringPeopleBrainReading
Typically, when you read, you have more time to think. Reading gives you a unique pause button for comprehension and insight. By and large, with oral language - when you watch a film or listen to a tape - you don't press pause.
Maryanne Wolf
TimeReadingThinkLanguageYou
All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.
Raina Telgemeier
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I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.
Bruno Tonioli
LoveHistoryReadingRangeMuch
Over the years, I began to understand that there were a lot of people out there reading physics in popular literature that they could not understand - not because it was too advanced, but because it wasn't advanced enough.
Leonard Susskind
PeopleReadingEnoughPhysicsOver
When I was coming of age, I remembered reading and studying the initial ideas within the feminist movement. There was this idea with my parents' generation that in order to find equality, a woman would need to behave like a man.
Bryce Dallas Howard
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Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.
Stephen Ambrose
ReadingYouListenOwnYourForces
I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up.
Caroline Kennedy
FatherMeReadingRememberHimUp
I like reading reviews. If they're clearly hating on you, I try not to read that deeply. But if they really are trying to understand, it's interesting.
Jon Favreau
ReadingInterestingTryingYouTry
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
GoodMeReadingThinkEndYou
I spend much too much time on the Web with e-mail and surfing and reading my key sites, and a whole day can go by, and you wonder, 'What did I do today?'
George Packer
TodayTimeDayReadingKeyYou
I'm always reading something.
John Oates
ReadingAlwaysSomething
If you're reading a novel that was written in 1964, you'll find out more about 1964 than if you're reading a nonfiction book written in 1964 because you're hearing how language was actually used and hearing what people's actual concerns were at the beginning of the 1960s.
Nick Hornby
BeginningPeopleBookReadingYou
Hopefully, reading and being around great literature inspires me to write songs, but I'm not sure about that.
Mat Kearney
GreatMeReadingLiteratureWrite
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I don't like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people. I love my home and staying in bed and watching 'Dancing With the Stars' or reading a Danielle Steel novel.
Britney Spears
LoveStarsHomeHatePeopleReading
I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.
Ken Follett
HistoryResearchWritingReading
My poems tend to have rhetorical structures; what I mean by that is they tend to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There tends to be an opening, as if you were reading the opening chapter of a novel. They sound like I'm initiating something, or I'm making a move.
Billy Collins
BeginningReadingEndYouChapter
I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King and I've got a plant catalogue on the go.
Sophie Thompson
SonGreatMomentKingReadingPlant
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
Aidan Chambers
ReadingLiteratureYouBecomeAbout
I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just don't take that into account in schools on those things like required reading lists. 'Cause that was my experience, say, with my son, who had to read 'Little House on the Prairie' when he was in third grade.
Jon Scieszka
SonExperienceReadingThinkParent
Because I spend so much time traveling, I tend to do most of my reading on the same iPad on which I write. For me, it's words, not paper, that matter most in the end. This practice has had the additional benefit of greatly reducing the time I spend storming through the house, defaming the mysterious forces who 'hid my book.'
Scott Turow
TimeWordsPracticeMeBookReading
When I was a teenager, I thought if any of my friends or people at school see me reading a book, they're gonna think I'm weak. So I didn't even do it in private. Then I grew up, got into college, and the teachers turned me on to books, and I got hooked.
George Pelecanos
SchoolPeopleCollegeMeReading
I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it.
John Lanchester
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