I taught myself to read music at a very young age, so when I started to take lessons in school, the teachers used to give me other instruments to keep me busy, because I was more advanced than the other kids.
More people will watch 'Spotlight' than will ever read the 'Globe' series that inspired it.
I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.
My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him.
If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
I loved stories as a kid, both being read to me and enjoying on my own. All these stories inspired my imagination, and that's what I have always aimed at doing for my readers: ignite their imaginations.
I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.
I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.
I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn't notice much. I could exist in my head. It was kind of my escape from the world and my protection.
My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha'am's essays.
At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.
From my foster parents, the Deans, I received the love that was ultimately to strengthen me, even when I had forgotten its source. It was my foster mother, a half-Indian, half-German woman, who taught me to read, though she herself was barely literate. I remember her reading to me every day from 'True Romance' magazine.
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.
I've read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, 'Boy I could shine here, but the story sucks.' I don't want to be part of that.
My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'
I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
I think really good books can be read by anybody.
I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.
There just isn't anything more invigorating than to read an article or hear about an entrepreneur using the term 'disruptive technology' that makes no reference to me as the source. When it's clear they really got the idea and they use it as if it were in everyday parlance, that's the ultimate triumph.
I love watching old movies, and I read a lot of autobiographies.
While we read history we make history.
I'd rather have just one person who reads and feels my work deeply than hundreds of thousands who read it but don't really care about.
Sitting down for the actor read when you first get together, it's like the Last Supper because you don't know who will be there for the next read.
A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long.
When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.
I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.
Every article I've read about myself always winds up concluding that I am not, in fact, completely stupid.
It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.
I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
One of the things you will notice about the book of Mark is that if you read through it in one setting, you will be breathing hard at the end. Literally, Mark has set up this book in a way that it is almost like several snapshots of Jesus Christ.
If you've read a lot of vintage science fiction, as I have at one time or another in my life, you can't help but realise how wrong we get it. I have gotten it wrong more times than I've gotten it right. But I knew that when I started; I knew that before I wrote a word of science fiction.
I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.
