The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script.
I've read plenty of J.G. Ballard, but I'm not really a Ballardian. I've met Ballardians, and I know when I can't compete. I like Ballard in his relatively unchallenging apocalyptic mode: 'Vermilion Sands,' 'The Drowned World,' 'The Burning World,' 'The Crystal World.'
Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.
My only window into the Internet is Twitter because I am afraid of the Internet. I need my mom to hold my hand if I'm going to read anything about me.
I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.
I read one too many books about Joy Division by people who weren't there, and they always seem to dwell on the dark, the intense, the miserable image of Joy Division.
When I first meet a girl, I have some questions I go through if I'm interested in her. Like, if she's a good-looking girl, and I figure out right away that she doesn't read, that's a dealbreaker for me.
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films.
The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.
Anything I've ever read by John Irving has been really well written.
I had never read Upton Sinclair. I didn't read 'The Jungle' in high school or anything like that. But it's pretty terrific writing.
I started writing this feature comedy in New York - a Chris Farley vehicle. The script was decent. When I got to LA, I met some new friends in film school and had them read my script and give me notes.
When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.
As an author, I realise, you're on your own. You have to do everything you can to help The Book. If I make sure people know it's out there, they can make up their own minds whether they want to read it.
What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.
But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.
One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings.
Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.
There are elements to my faith which are echoed very closely in the scripts that come through. I read certain moments, and I'm able to say, 'Yes, I recognize that. I champion that. I ally myself to that idea.' Then there are times where I don't. My feeling is, at this stage in my life, that it will be an ongoing struggle.
Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying.
Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.
I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.
If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.
It was huge to read the Proverbs of the day every morning, it was huge to read the Psalm of the day every morning and to get that in us and get us going before the day even started.
Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.
The contracts for 'Idol' are definitely very intimidating at first. There's lots of fine, fine details that you have to read through.
My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
