All Quotes

I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.
‐‐ Laurie Halse Anderson

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
‐‐ Irwin Shaw

I reached a point towards the end on the old heart where I had trouble getting out of a chair. All I wanted to do was get out of bed in the morning and walk to my office and sit back down in the chair. Now I throw 50 pound bags of horse feed in the back of my pickup truck and I don't even think about it. I'm back doing those things.
‐‐ Dick Cheney

I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.
‐‐ Dan Gilroy

I reached a point where I didn't think I was that great. I'm not being humble. I was looking at things and thinking: 'You're not really good in that'. I think I was becoming boring as well as bored. It was nobody's fault except mine - probably - and it might not even be my fault.
‐‐ Michael Keaton

I reached a point where - I have a real heart and concern for families and for youth, and the more I became involved in working through a ministry, the more I realized how powerful the entertainment industry was and how irresponsible it was.
‐‐ Ben Harney

I reached a situation in which I cannot conduct the presidency.
‐‐ Roh Moo-hyun

I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate.
‐‐ Kay Granger

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.
‐‐ Mary Stewart

I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it.
‐‐ Jeannette Walls

I reached rock bottom halfway through college. And it was - because of all the pressure that I think we're talking about right now - the pressure to learn how to budget, the pressure to really abandon everything that you ever learned. You don't have a comfort zone anymore. You don't have your neighborhood. You don't have your family with you.
‐‐ Jidenna

I reached that day that I always thought might happen, where I say to myself I don't want to do this anymore. I'm looking for some stability. I want to stay home.
‐‐ Joe Mantegna

I reached the point where I actually enjoyed the umpiring more than playing.
‐‐ Jim Evans

I reached the stage where I was afraid to wiggle my leg, but then I thought 'why shouldn't I?' It's what I do and now I know how to turn an audience on again.
‐‐ Steve Marriott

I react emotionally to everything!
‐‐ Jennie Garth

I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement.
‐‐ Lee Siegel

I read '1984' at a precocious age, like 8, and when I did the math, I realized that Julia, Winston Smith's lover, was born the same year I was, 1957. I read that book over and over again with the 1960s as a backdrop: anti-war and anti-bomb protests and this general pervasive sense of doom.
‐‐ Elizabeth Hand

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.
‐‐ Jonathan Stroud

I read a blog about this young filmmaker in the Philippines who made a short film, and one of the characters in the film reads my novel and then starts discussing the novel with someone. The idea that my book can inspire another artist and be part of that other artist's work... that's the reason I write.
‐‐ Miguel Syjuco

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.
‐‐ Amy Tan

I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.
‐‐ Emma Roberts

I read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what I read.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

I read a book called 'The Tao of Physics' by Fritjof Capra that pointed out the parallels between quantum physics and eastern mysticism. I started to feel there was more to reality than conventional science allowed for and some interesting ideas that it hadn't got round to investigating, such as altered states of consciousness.
‐‐ Brian Josephson

I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that.
‐‐ Tom Araya

I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body.
‐‐ Joel Kinnaman

I read a fan bulletin board once, and somebody said I had a face like a potato, so I never went back on there.
‐‐ Mary Lynn Rajskub

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.
‐‐ Marion Barry

I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home.
‐‐ J. M. Coetzee

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.
‐‐ Harold MacMillan

I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine.
‐‐ Alice McDermott

I read a lot about serial killers.
‐‐ Jamie Dornan

I read a lot, all the time, but often I read books for research, or because they're interesting to me in some way, even if they aren't exactly 'pleasurable.'
‐‐ Gretchen Rubin

I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.
‐‐ Nora Roberts

I read a lot as a kid and in high school.
‐‐ Edward Hirsch

I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in.
‐‐ Sanford I. Weill

I read a lot fewer thrillers than I think people assume I do.
‐‐ Chelsea Cain

I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots of walks. Nature is a nice reset button for me, it's how I get a lot of thinking done.
‐‐ Carrie Brownstein

I read a lot growing up. It was kind of my comfort, you know; I loved it. I love story. I love narrative. I was academic. I wasn't particularly athletic. I didn't make the drill team. I didn't go out for sports.
‐‐ Julianne Moore

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.
‐‐ Tom Sizemore

I read a lot of autobiographical stories, and I write plays and prose. And I play piano and cello. A lot of my downtime is devoted to that.
‐‐ Alexis Dziena

I read a lot of bad scripts and weird television shows. I don't know. There's a lot of work out there I was reading at 14 years old and noticing this lack of thought. And then, reading 'Afterschool,' that's full of thought. It was bursting with ideas.
‐‐ Ezra Miller

I read a lot of books about psychopaths. I read a wonderful book Amy Hempel gave me about the guy who created criminal profiling - a fascinating book, 'Mind Hunter.'
‐‐ Mona Simpson

I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good at children's books.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

I read a lot of detective novels.
‐‐ Caitlin Kittredge

I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.
‐‐ David Nicholls

I read a lot of fantasy and grew up on 'Star Wars' and 'Star Trek.' I loved going to Middle Earth. 'Dungeons & Dragons' was a huge influence.
‐‐ Tony DiTerlizzi

I read a lot of fantasy as a kid. I read 'The Hobbit' and all of the 'Lord of the Rings' books, but I also read a lot of realism like 'The Outsiders.'
‐‐ Lisa Papademetriou

I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.
‐‐ Tracy Chevalier