I love research. Sometimes I think writing novels is just an excuse to allow myself this leisurely time of getting to know a period and reading its books and watching its films. I see it as a real treat.
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Related I like the excuse of winter. You get to spend a lot of time inside reading and watching movies inste... AMANDA PRUKA Sex joins two people spiritually and emotionally as well as physically. This is its purpose-to bond ... CRAIG GROESCHEL I like learning things, and I like that writing comics is an excuse to look into new stuff and resea... CHARLES SOULE I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books abou... MARY POPE OSBORNE I love reading novels, and I love going to movies, but I kind of hate going to an adaptation of a no... DAVID BENIOFF Writing a short story is like painting a picture on the head of a pin. And just getting everything t... REBECCA MAKKAI One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others... MARY ROACH I like to read Bengali novels and short stories. I am not that fond of reading English books, as I d... ARIJIT SINGH I've been reading Greek mythology since I was a kid. I also taught it when I was a sixth grade t... RICK RIORDAN I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and read... ADRIANA TRIGIANI I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing resea... MICHIO KAKU I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me ... DANIEL DAY-LEWIS I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and th... CHARLES LAMB Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exerc... ITALO CALVINO All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who wr... TOM STOPPARD I certainly love writing books. I've always written short stories and novels, because in prose, you ... MARIA HEADLEY Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actu... CHRIS MATTHEWS Hmm. I think love is about loving all things, to treat each and every thing and every one as a sover... MICHAEL SANDERS I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're abso... SANDRA BROWN Writing novels is largely about endurance and patience. I take a lot of breaks, hit walls, and go do... ADAM MANSBACH I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is... LALLA WARD Listening to podcast, reading a book, listening to an aduibook and watching films isn't waste of tim... DEYTH BANGER I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them. NEIL JACKSON I love Indiana University. I think it is an exciting institution and it has been a privilege to serv... ADAM HERBERT I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals... ERNEST J. GAINES I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics a... KAREN TRAVISS I love being in the archives, traveling, sitting in dusty places and looking at books with brittle p... MOLLY ANTOPOL The value of writing about art is its effect on the imagination. Paintings allow us to inhabit anoth... SUSAN VREELAND [T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels... PAUL AUSTER In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, wi... PAUL A. SAMUELSON I find just in terms of free time I'm always envious of people I know who... listen to music, wa... EDGAR WRIGHT I chose biochemistry as my major and graduated after 4 years with an Honours degree in Biochemistry.... ELIZABETH BLACKBURN Watching movie instead of reading books, feeling like I am getting away from my own fantasy. P S DAVID PAUL I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to dr... NAPOLEON BONAPARTE I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign corr... ALAN FURST I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I My only excuse is that I have no reputation myself, and I am thereby well aware of its ephemeral val... ELOISA JAMES I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do ... JOHN RIDLEY I love watching old movies, reading and having some good meals. I have a very close group of friends... JUSTIN BARTHA I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more... CECELIA AHERN I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one k... MADHUR BHANDARKAR All I wanted to do was go back inside to the library and read a book.I used to spend all my time rea... KATHRYN MAGENDIE Just because I liked something at one point in time doesn’t mean I’ll always like it, or that I ... JAROD KINTZ Gratitude is a divine emotion. It fills the heart, not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever. I... CHARLOTTE BRONTë But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period an... ALAN VEGA All good books are different but all bad books are exactly the same. I know this to be a fact becaus... ROBERT HARRIS I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age'... GARTH NIX I love writing picture books and story books because of the exciting, visual life that artists and i... BERLIE DOHERTY I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I... PAUL AUSTER Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story u... VANESSA PARADIS I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller. JULIA SAWALHA No, I thought. Not just Hell. Really, Heaven was just as guilty. What kind of group could advocate g... RICHELLE MEAD I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happene... BEBE REXHA I love to lose myself in other men's minds.
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I cannot sit ... CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) I treated the last Olympics as a big international event. This time I want to treat it as a place to... FUMIE SUGURI I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I ad... NAGUIB MAHFOUZ In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in econo... PAUL SAMUELSON I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... BRIAN JACQUES At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that w... GREGG ALLMAN I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death... . I see a repose that nei... EMILY BRONTë I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was a... ANN HOOD The way I see it, love is an amusement park, and food its souvenir. STEPHANIE KLEIN When I look at my bookcase and see one book after the other upon its shelves, I think to myself, The... SULLY TARNISH I think everybody is tired at this time of year. But we are not going to use this as an excuse. DALTON PEPPER But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first perio... ALAN VEGA I think it is an exceptional movie with a very diverse cast. I'm glad that Hollywood can open its mi... CARLA THOMAS While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure. STEPHEN J. DUBNER I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But... ELLEN POTTER I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and pa... SARA SHERIDAN Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a sto... ASHWIN SANGHI I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I ... BRUCE COVILLE I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyte... ERRI DE LUCA I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist. CLIFFORD GEERTZ If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels. QUENTIN TARANTINO I have a hard time writing, and I usually have to put a timer at my desk and put it on for an hour. ... JAN BRETT I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; ... DAVID S. GOYER I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in. DOUGRAY SCOTT I generally don't walk out of films. If I start a book, and I don't love it by page 100, I w... DAVID DOBKIN At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that w... GREGG ALLMAN Writing is at its best when writing it is like reading it. JULIA RANZANI When I'm writing, I try not to think things like, 'Gosh, I have to finish writing this book.... LINDA SUE PARK Before I start a film or a play, I try to build a world in my mind. An imaginative world which the c... TOM HIDDLESTON I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching telev... JOHNNY CASH I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information. ADAM D'ANGELO As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading... PAUL RUDNICK You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer. I DONT KNOW I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more will... CAROLINE LEAVITT I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books... MATTHEW VAUGHN It is just celebrating someone's death and I don't know how that came across as an excuse to drink, ... EMMA FLETCHER I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing. MACKENZIE ASTIN I don't see myself as an artist, as a writer. The sort of writing that I do, which is popular fi... FIONA MCINTOSH I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I crave... RAINBOW ROWELL I don't see last year as being representative of me as a player, ... I just haven't thrown intercept... BRIAN GRIESE When I look at my bookcase and see one book after the other lined up upon its shelves I think to mys... SULLY TARNISH I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading ... CHRIS RASCHKA I know its going to be an emotional time for me. I know I'm going to be shedding a tear or two. No o... TONI EDWARDS I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going t... DANIEL RADCLIFFE When faced with certain death, running is sensible, but I think a man can make an unhealthy habit of... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spe... MAJ SJOWALL I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens,... SALMA HAYEK
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MAXINE WATERS The power to impeach a president should not be casually used to remove a president and overturn an e... MAXINE WATERS He changed the way African Americans are viewed in this country MAXINE WATERS Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think it's important that parents an... ALICE WATERS After 'Freaky Friday,' another teen movie was not on my playlist. MARK WATERS Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, w... ETHEL WATERS Marriage equality is a hustler's feeding frenzy of gold-diggers. I campaigned for marriage equal... JOHN WATERS Please do not touch anybody else's props. If it's your prop, touch away. Touch, touch, touch, touch,... JEN WATERS I think it is important that our rides are really spectacular. These are big European rides. We've w... JANE WATERS The one thing about 'Beautiful Creatures,' 'The Host' and 'The Mortal Instrument... MARK WATERS Reaching out to other people is important work. I am so pleased and honored that I'm getting the... MAXINE WATERS We all need to know how to cook. I can buy a chicken and have many meals come from it. Is it afforda... ALICE WATERS Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it... ALICE WATERS A psychiatrist once told me early in treatment, “Stop trying to make me like you,” and what a so... JOHN WATERS I don't think it works to just be mad at them - Maxine Waters out ranting and kicking down the d... MAXINE WATERS Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit f... ETHEL WATERS I found that the loudest fans in the world are in Istanbul. ROGER WATERS I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for i... ROGER WATERS Them older people... they didn't think you could make it in no kind of city. They think if you get i... MUDDY WATERS When we needed to find a hippie bookstore that sold secondhand books, I thought of Abandoned Planet ... MUDDY WATERS The thing about San Francisco is that it has this kind of magical quality, MUDDY WATERS Our location manager sent me photos of different possibilities, and I picked out my favorite, which ... MUDDY WATERS I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory. MUDDY WATERS We've had a lot transpire here today. CRAIG WATERS We talked to her about moving some of the monologues around. It's really nice to have contact with t... JEN WATERS This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'... MAXINE WATERS I'm a strong black woman, and I cannot be intimidated. I cannot be undermined. MAXINE WATERS Making out with Divine, that's beyond the bravery of coming out. He was hassled about being gay. JOHN WATERS Making out with Divine, that's beyond the bravery of coming out. He was hassled about being gay. You... JOHN WATERS The first record I got, I think I stole. I was with my mother; she turned her back, and I slipped it... JOHN WATERS That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city. MAXINE WATERS I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to ... ALICE WATERS Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that... JOHN WATERS