Pastoral Resources

I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us.

Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.

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.

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies.

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.

Most plays that are missed by the umpire are caused by the umpire not reading those cues early enough and making the proper adjustments.

Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.

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.

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.

As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.

There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.