George Burns Quotes

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

The 'Phoenix Sun' did a list of the unsexiest men in the world, and I made it to number one. I beat out Bin Laden. He's a terrorist, hasn't bathed in months. I beat him out. To me it was a great honor.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

I have never won a single award - National or Filmfare - and I just hope they don't give me a Lifetime Achievement Award because I won't accept it.

I think I'm funnier in my writing than in person.

I have never struggled, and I have never done anything.

Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything.

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

I've always liked reading books that contain funny lines or situations, and maybe because my work is known chiefly for its violence and misery, I made a more conscious attempt with The Heavenly Table to do that myself.

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

People do write books.

You can't write if you don't read.

I love to read, and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.

If I knew that 3D was going to be such a big deal, I would have gotten that boob job 10 years ago.

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.

I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.

Whenever there's an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to encourage other writers to write and encourage folks to read more and get connected to it in a personal way, it's a positive thing.

Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.