#read

In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#been #convinced #crushed #france #had

In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America! ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#audience #chapter #corpse #experience #exquisite

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

#believed #break #break up #court #divorced

I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch. ↗

— Jimmy Fallon

#barrymore #course #drew #drew barrymore #fever

If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#fiction #fiction writer #go #illumination #interesting

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#read #something #well

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition. ↗

— Cyril Falls

#contrary #ensure #leadership #necessary #particularly

It takes me 10 minutes to get ready to go out, and that includes the shower. ↗

— Josh Brolin

#go #includes #me #minutes #out

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread. ↗

— Jeanne Calment

#excuse #i #life #me #parents

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#created #experience #i #i want you #imaginary