Josh Hutcherson Quotes

I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.

I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books.

I don't read that many books - I tend to read scripts for projects.

Yes, I don't read books for entertainment.

I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.

American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

The trouble is, being an actor, you're always being sent scripts, so you've always got something to read. You've always got about three scripts to read, that you have to read, all the time. So finding a book or getting into a book series is hard, especially for me.

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.

I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.'

I'll read anything Anne Carson writes, anything J. M. Coetzee writes, and anything Cormac McCarthy writes. I'll drop whatever I'm doing to read a new Mary Ruefle essay.

I get so many scripts a day but none of them inspires me. If I get a good inspiring script, then I will be most happy to make it into a film.

I read in all forms: paper, computer, phone, audio.

I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.

I don't know that I read more than the average person. I don't think I do very much. I tend to read more when I'm on holiday. That's when I can go through books like you wouldn't believe. I read a bit of everything, but the novel has always been very important to me.

There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when I got out of school and started reading scripts - the really smart, character-driven stuff tends to be smaller films, and they just don't get made.

I like scripts. I spend a lot of time writing them.

I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.

For all the hundreds of scripts that are out there, there's not that many that are amazing.

Film industry people don't read books.

Whenever I hear the narration for a new film, I have this process back home where my mother reads all my scripts.

I'd been acting since I was a teenager. I'd come to the point where I was writing my own movies of the week for TV. That was fun.