Andrew Dominik Quotes

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.

One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.

I love to get books, because I love to read.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.

I don't very often read novels.

I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.

I've stopped reading fiction. I don't read it at all. I read other things: history, biography. I don't have the same interest in fiction that I once did.

I write mostly for pleasure, and the reading should ideally be for pleasure, too.

I like very much to read novels. I like very much some writers.

I want people to be open to the idea of sitting down and reading a Dickens book. They will also have a great time.

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

I'll usually see a scene in my head, playing like a movie trailer. After I've written that scene, everything takes off from there.

What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

I love to read things that I'm sure won't make a movie.

History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.

Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

I loved fantasy role play.

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

As far as what readers can expect with 'Maybe Someday,' I'm not the type of writer who writes to educate or inform my readers. I simply write to entertain them.