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In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.

I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.

Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.

You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.

Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.