All Quotes

I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.
‐‐ Payne Stewart

I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.
‐‐ Tom Peters

I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the inspiration for my storytelling style are folks like Chekhov.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world.
‐‐ Kirby Bliss Blanton

I don't read much nonfiction because the nonfiction I do read always seems to be so badly written. What I enjoy about fiction - the great gift of fiction - is that it gives language an opportunity to happen.
‐‐ Stanley Elkin

I don't read much of anything online.
‐‐ Daniel Clowes

I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.
‐‐ Kelley Armstrong

I don't read much when I'm working. When I'm finished work, I don't want a thing to do with words.
‐‐ Pauline Gedge

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
‐‐ James Taylor

I don't read music. I don't write or read music.
‐‐ James Taylor

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
‐‐ Barbra Streisand

I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.
‐‐ Erykah Badu

I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true.
‐‐ Susanna Hoffs

I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

I don't read my books, so I don't allow myself the dangerous luxury of toying with the idea of doing things differently.
‐‐ Neel Mukherjee

I don't read my own press, so I don't know what's being reported on a daily basis - I only hear about things when they reach a sort of Def-Con status, and my publicist calls me because we have to do some damage control.
‐‐ Megan Fox

I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.
‐‐ Kevin Bacon

I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.
‐‐ Patricia Arquette

I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.
‐‐ Kate Bush

I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
‐‐ Ira Glass

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
‐‐ Jack Vance

I don't read reviews.
‐‐ Andrea Arnold

I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
‐‐ Anne Carson

I don't read reviews, and I try not to read articles about me. It taints your outlook: if you believe the good things, you've got to believe the bad things, too.
‐‐ Bonnie Langford

I don't read reviews, and it's not because I don't think I can learn something, I'm sure I could learn a lot. I just that I feel very passionately about the work and especially when you're doing theater, you really only need one director and when you read reviews, you feel like you have twelve, because you respond to them, naturally.
‐‐ Andrea Riseborough

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
‐‐ Jeanette Winterson

I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head.
‐‐ Kim Cattrall

I don't read reviews, because if you believe the good ones, you have to believe the bad.
‐‐ Kelli O'Hara

I don't read reviews, good or bad, just for my own sanity.
‐‐ Max Winkler

I don't read reviews. I find them very distracting, whether they're good or bad.
‐‐ Eve Best

I don't read reviews. I refuse to have my ego inflated or deflated by someone I don't know.
‐‐ Suzan-Lori Parks

I don't read reviews if I know in advance they're negative, because I can't have my confidence undermined when I'm writing.
‐‐ Christopher Moore

I don't read reviews or interviews or anything, just because I'm afraid; If I believed the good, then I'd believe the bad, and there will be bad.
‐‐ Sia Furler

I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.
‐‐ Mary Stuart Masterson

I don't read Science Fiction.
‐‐ Brent Spiner

I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.
‐‐ Gyorgy Ligeti

I don't read tabloids. I just don't go there.
‐‐ Ashley Jensen

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.
‐‐ Cory Monteith

I don't read the critics.
‐‐ Olivier Dahan

I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don't sort of indulge in my own fodder. I don't really care what they write about me.
‐‐ Ashton Kutcher

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.
‐‐ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
‐‐ Ed O'Brien

I don't read the reviews, the blogs, or anything else. Instead, I feel the audience when I show the film.
‐‐ Lee Daniels

I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either.
‐‐ Tom Holt

I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

I don't read Twitter.
‐‐ Josh Trank

I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and so I'm aware of what's out there. But I tend not to read the books.
‐‐ Lois Lowry

I don't realize how rare it is to genuinely have sincere love for everyone you work with. Especially in Hollywood, but even in life.
‐‐ Eden Sher

I don't really analyze my process. I do know that if it's not right, I won't move on. I'm tenacious to a fault about that.
‐‐ Doug Liman