#reading

When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics. ↗

— George Stephen

#basics #books #came #decided #did

I remember nearly having a fit of the giggles during the reading because dear Daniel was SO respectful and serious and I was finding the whole situation funny because I was speaking to his profile. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#daniel #dear #during #finding #fit

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#book #drama #film #film music #i

My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading. ↗

— Danny Strong

#auditioning #casting #casting director #director #experience

I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#her #i #intention #method #might

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#comes #give #give me #good #i

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye. ↗

— Amy Tan

#catcher in the rye #forbidden #great #i #influence

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#innate #learned #least #listening #looking

Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar. ↗

— James Taylor

#control #get #i #out #reading

And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about. ↗

— Lawrence Taylor

#because #booth #character #easy #get