"I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai."

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"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Reading, Escape, Story, Reality

"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Reading, Happiness, Today, Wisdom, Truth

"What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?"

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Reading, Shakespeare, Books, Frustration

"Easy reading is damn hard writing."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

Reading, Writing

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Reading, Body, Exercise, Mind

"One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?"

Alain de Botton, English Writer

Reading, Books, Knowledge, Insight, Self

"Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Reading, Books, Mind, Escape, Suffering

"He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Reading, Read, Statesman, Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"With a book he was regardless of time."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Reading, Books, Time, Passion, Escape

"I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

Reading, Knowledge, Books, Curiosity

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"Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent."

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"In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time."

Time

"You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about."

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"I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed."

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"I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations."

Expectation

"I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something."

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"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"

"What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?"

"Easy reading is damn hard writing."

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

"One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?"

"Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw."

"He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule."

"With a book he was regardless of time."

"I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."

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"Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent."

"In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time."

"You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about."

"I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed."

"I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it."

"It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that."

"Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real."

"Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film."

"I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations."

"I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something."