For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious reading is akin to asking one to recall their three favorite sunsets. – Thomas Steinbeck
Certainly with a book, people are going to be able to read it and give themselves permission to have that delicious feeling of being terrified because they’re in a safe place while they’re reading. That’s what you can rely on as a writer, that people can let themselves be really frightened because they’re really all right. – Susan Hill
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. – Will Rogers
I actually come from comics, and I’m big on comics. I was reading ‘Walking Dead’ from the beginning. Then just being on the show, I was really lucky to work on episodes like ‘Pretty Much Dead Already’ and ‘Clear.’ I worked a lot on episodes that I didn’t write. – Scott M. Gimple
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. – William Gaddis
We all have our notions of sport. If I’d wanted to make my living climbing mountains, I wouldn’t have gone into publishing. Most of the time, you’re sitting in a dark room reading a manuscript. – Sonny Mehta
One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they’re there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading. – Walter Kirn
I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is – a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate. – Suzanne Somers
It’s absurd to think of ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make you suspend your disbelief enough to allow you to get lost in the story and believe what you’re reading for a while. – Seth Grahame-Smith
One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be the impression you get from reading his books. – Sara Zarr
We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it’s this wonderful adjunct. – Walter Dean Myers
I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We’ve come to believe – from reading a lot of articles and talking to a lot of scientists – that there’s another side to be heard. – Steven Levitt
Readers can read what they want and easily switch to other books, so we’re seeing a lot of reading behaviors. Some verticals attract different usage than others. We can spot reading patterns. – Trip Adler
I wrote a novel about an economic/environmental collapse titled ‘Soft Apocalypse,’ and that’s definitely the sort I’m best prepared for. To write the novel, I did a lot of reading on what we might expect, so at the first sign, I’m ready to convert all of my assets to gold and ammo and stock up on freeze-dried food. – Will McIntosh
I work in film, TV, commercials and do live PR stunts for companies. A lot of my time is spent reading scripts and looking at designing sequences, speaking to directors and producers about how they want the sequences to look, how they will work and budgeting those stunts. – Steve Truglia
I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage. – Zadie Smith
Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it’s transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa. – Steve Carell
Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph to see what you liked about it. – W. P. Kinsella
History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past. – Walter Cronkite
I had been quite judicious about the scripts I was reading, but nothing was really taking my fancy until I pulled this script out: ‘Lucifer.’ I have to say, within about three or four pages, I thought it was hilarious; I laughed out loud a couple of times and knew this is the one that I wanted to do. – Tom Ellis
Prisoners around the world have said that reading ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ helped them get through their ordeal. That’s something to aspire to. – Tom Reiss
Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued. – Zig Ziglar
Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I’m writing at the time. – Simon Mawer
