My favorite day was Monday, September the 25th, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana, site of the Superdome. I watched our people who had suffered so grievously through Hurricane Katrina fill a stadium hours before a game and stay hours Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/michael_irvin.html#L32gkg6HwzhweWSA.99Michael Lrvin
No one wants to read a story where I saw a cute puppy on the street and I petted it. I mean, that's not funny. I only write about the funny stuff. Tucker Max
Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare. Gene Tunney
Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is. Joan Didion
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. Virginia Woolf
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences. Italo Calvino Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/i/italo_calvino_2.html#keDPvoyO1d6Ryhs6.99Italo Calvino
Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting. Joan Didion
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. Margaret Atwood
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing. Merlin Olsen
People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying. Paul Auster
People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read. Rick Barry
Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot. John Green
Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it. Carmen Agra Deedy
Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. Margaret Atwood