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I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.
Dana Spiotta

Music, Movies, Learned

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.
Robert Sheckley

Forever, Outside, Field

I've been reading this little book. It's called the Russian constitution. And it says that the only source of power in Russia is the people. So I don't want to hear those who say we're appealing to the authorities. Who's the power here?
Alexei Navalny

Power, Book, Here

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
Vera Brittain

Marriage, Husband, Wife

I've been reading horror since I was five years old.
George Stephen

Old, Since, Five

I avoid the young adult section altogether if possible, although it's sometimes fun to catch a girl lying on the floor, reading 'Gossip Girl.'
Cecily von Ziegesar

Fun, Girl, Gossip

I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a book about something I'd want to read if I was 16. It turned into a Cinderella story... I developed a proposal and the characters of 'Gossip Girl' for my job.
Cecily von Ziegesar

Girl, Job, Gossip

But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes.
Griffin Dunne

Time, Before, Learned

What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.
Douglass North

War, Give, Become

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.
Paul Merton

Time, History, Comedy

I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.
Karl Urban

Character, Play, Actually

Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).
Frederik Pohl

Great, Science, Said

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.
Frederik Pohl

Science, Fiction, Clearly

The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.
Frederik Pohl

Head, Stories, Ten

Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!
David Baldacci

Democracy, Beach, Associate

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
Clarence Day

Art, Writing, Thinking

My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.
Eric Allin Cornell

School, Attention, Head

When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us.
Dorothy Day

Spiritual, Night, Study

And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.
Margaret Spellings

Trust, Children, Important

I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.
Ken Follet

History, Writing, Enjoy

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

Good, Bad, Read

My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not.
Dorothy Fields

Good, Father, Saying

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.
George P. Baker

Great, Play, Action

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.
Richard Steele

Mind, Body, Exercising

When you read a supernatural suspense story or a ghost story, or a horror story, the evil at play is something that you can dismiss. And I wonder if, in this time, if people really want to be sitting on the subway reading a book about someone releasing a dirty bomb on the subway.
Michael Koryta

Time, Evil, Someone

I started writing as soon as I started reading.
Michael Koryta

Writing, Started, Soon

Unlike many graduate fellowships, the Rhodes seeks leaders who will 'fight the world's fight.' They must be more than mere bookworms. We are looking for students who wonder, students who are reading widely, students of passion who are driven to make a difference in the lives of those around them and in the broader world.
Heather Wilson

Fight, Passion, Around

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head.
James Rollins

American, Often, While

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.
James Rollins

Often, While, Inspired

I subscribe to 'National Geographic,' 'Scientific American,' 'Discover,' and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head.
James Rollins

American, While, Head

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