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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading Quotes
On books, ideas, and a lifelong reading habit.
This collection includes a musician's case for teaching reading and dictation before an instrument, alongside a simple, almost self-deprecating admission of feeling born reading. See Book quotes for more.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all, a great stylist, a great writer. Anyone can read Manny Farber's film criticism, whether that person is a novelist, a poet, another critic, a historian, and learn a lot about writing by reading him.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of sheer pleasure, Tom Stoppard was very big for me because he is so funny and so smart, and it felt delicious reading him.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's too easy to unconsciously echo another novelist's voice while reading fiction, a habit of mimicry I probably picked up as a musician.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as characters are concerned, Alan Partridge makes me wet myself. I'm currently reading the book and have started talking like him as an unfortunate consequence.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't get to watch a lot of TV. I just do all my news and reading and 'Meet the Press,' all that fun, exciting stuff.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The early readers are in-between books for the kids who aren't ready for novels yet but are done with my picture books. It's really rewarding to think that they can grow up reading my books at all the different levels.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very much a word-centric writer, and that comes from the literature and the reading that I did as kid and also the films and mythology and stories.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I keep reading between the lies.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.
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- Nov 07, 2020