Quotes by Reading All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words. Amy Lowell reading dream book Um, yeah. I guess lying around reading books all day doesn't do much for physical endurance. Amy Plum reading book lying Reading was a way to make friends or enemies, a way to discover how all these different people exist in the world and to rub shoulders with them. The ability to feel as if you have met someone, as if that person exists in flesh and blood and that you relate to them somehow, makes you feel a lot less lonely. And it also makes you feel very brave. Amy Poehler lonely reading blood I'm not ambitious when it comes to my acting career. I'm not breaking down my agency's doors or sending out headshots. Even when I'm offered work, I always want small parts. When it comes to things that other people have written, I just don't know what I'm doing. I'm terrible at memorizing a script and reading lines. I get confused and I don't understand and it just looks fake to me. It's more difficult for me to be creative that way. Amy Sedaris confused agency reading I like to invest as a performer in the director's vision and then bring a sense of reality to whatever I'm doing, whether it's comedy or whether it's drama, and trust that they're going to tell me if something's reading as funny or if it's reading as dramatic or reading in the right tone. Amy Seimetz reading drama reality You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn. Amy Tan reading education writing The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye. Amy Tan catchers influence reading Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others. Amy Waldman reading writing character Truth cannot be given to you; especially if you are following an organized religion, then truth will be as far from you as darkness is from light. Truth is not found by observing rituals, undertaking pilgrimages or reading the scriptures. It is simply a waste of time. Anandmurti Gurumaa light reading darkness The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them. Anatole Broyard reading night book The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable. Anatole Broyard reading talking book The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads. Anatole France reading funny book Never lend books, for no one ever returns them Anatole France library reading book I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue. Anatole France reading easy book There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women. Anatole France ugly reading book As I was reading the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] I kept thinking, "Sweetie, you are dancing as fast as you can!" Anderson Cooper reading adventure book I don't mind opinions, because you like something or you don't like something, but to say things about your personal life? I'm like, "Man, let me quit reading this. 'Cause I'll stab everybody." Andre Benjamin reading mind men My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer; I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special; he's still one of my favorite writers. Andre Dubus dad mom reading To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. Andre Gide reading motivational travel I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from various angles) by those among the characters on whom they will have had any effect. I would like those events, in the account they will make of them, to appear slightly distorted; a kind of interest stems, for the reader, from the simple fact that he should need to restore. The story requires his collaboration in order to properly take shape. Andre Gide reading simple character «910111213141516171819»
