Alison Weir
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ROBERT REED PETER SHAFFER Working as a bookbinder, I had put covers on "The Lord of the Rings," but I never read it. It was ju... BILLY BOYD I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM I studied law at Columbia, but I was more interested in why people committed crimes than I was in de... SARAH MORGAN I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that... CECILY VON ZIEGESAR TONI MORRISON I read books for exams at school, but only because I had to read them, and really didn't enjoy i... RACHEL TUCKER GEORGE R. R. MARTIN My process for determining which eras I'd write about was to just read history books that gave a... SUSAN BARKER I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I gues... MEGHAN TRAINOR JOAN D. VINGE I had to read it for home school. It is sort of a mystery, and it was so detailed. I like books like... CAROLINE LELAND DAVID BERGEN JOHN IRVING I always wondered if I could write a novel, so I decided to try. I thought about writing a crime sto... GENE HUNT JOYCE CAROL OATES When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful... DAVID WALLIAMS I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door... MA JIAN RICHARD RUSSO ANTHONY BURGESS OLIVIA SUDJIC JOYCE CAROL OATES It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by peopl... EUDORA WELTY SARAH VOWELL LIAM NEESON As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was ... KAREN THOMPSON WALKER PIERS ANTHONY DANIEL CRAIG Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I AUGUST WILSON That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was... LAWRENCE KASDAN I certainly couldn't have survived my childhood without books. All that deprivation and pain--abuse,... JUNOT DíAZ When I read reviews, I go right past the plot. I don't want to read anything about the story, and I ... CAMPBELL SCOTT VERONICA ROTH PHILIPPA GREGORY CARL HIAASEN GEORGE R. R. MARTIN JUNOT DIAZ I actually don't read comic books. I did when I was a kid - I used to read a lot of 'X-Men&#... CHARLYNE YI TANITH LEE C.S. LEWIS WALTER DEAN MYERS JULIUS ERVING CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN BENJAMIN DISRAELI It was, when I read it, I thought, such a beautiful script. I loved the story. I thought it was well... JENNIFER CONNELLY I weave the company into what we laughingly call 'Jack's novel.' I write this novel for ... JACK O'BRIEN I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in m... JAMES LAUGHLIN JEAN RHYS SOPHIE KINSELLA SUE TOWNSEND SALMAN RUSHDIE When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like... OSAMU DAZAI VIRGINIA WOOLF As soon as I finished 'The Finkler Question,' I was in despair. I'd changed my English p... HOWARD JACOBSON Terry was conscious of all those things and wanted to tell the story as he had read it in the histor... COLIN FARRELL I read his books back in high school and through college. I just always thought he was a fascinating... DAVID HOUSTON When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of ... VICTOR SALVA JAKE GYLLENHAAL RICHARD WRIGHT The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on i... UTADA HIKARU I started out doing improvised voices when I started working in a program where I read for kids in s... STEVEN BLUM MIKE TYSON Not really. When I came on my recruiting trip, he told me I was going to wear the number. My uncle a... MIKE GARRETT I was given the book to read first of all and I found it totally inspiring, arousing and very moving... JULIE WALTERS BILL HADER I was inhuman becau... STEVE TOLTZ TOM DRURY CHRISTOPHER REEVE A friend called me up and said there's a story in there you really need to read. So I read it, and I... DIANA OSSANA JANE GOODALL
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I prefer to be left alone with my books. ALISON WEIR Court life for a queen of France at that time was, however, stultifyingly routine. Eleanor found tha... ALISON WEIR In this martial world dominated by men, women had little place. The Church's teachings might underpi... ALISON WEIR At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Rev... ALISON WEIR When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently wri... ALISON WEIR JOHNNY WEIR I'm a middle child, and I have a younger sister who is stunning - just beautiful and smart. STEPHNIE WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR ARABELLA WEIR JOHNNY WEIR I am not a brave man... I do not have the right stuff. Astronauts are really a cut above. ANDY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR Oh,” Lewis said, “well if you won’t let us then— Wait…wait a minute.… I’m looking at m... ANDY WEIR I don’t want to come off as arrogant here, but I’m the best botanist on the planet. ANDY WEIR The screen went black before I was out of the airlock. Turns out the “L” in “LCD” stands for... ANDY WEIR Maybe I’ll post a consumer review. “Brought product to surface of Mars. It stopped working. 0/10... ANDY WEIR To them, equipment failure is terrifying. To me, it’s “Tuesday. ANDY WEIR I guess you could call it a "failure", but I prefer the term "learning experience". ANDY WEIR BOB WEIR JOHNNY WEIR MIKE WEIR BOB WEIR ARABELLA WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR I'm so excited, ... It's so rewarding after so many nationals and after coming back from Worlds and ... AMANDA WEIR I came into this meet knowing I had a shot at winning the 100 and 50. That was my goal, so that's wh... AMANDA WEIR Faster than you can blink, I guess. AMANDA WEIR I had one of my best starts, AMANDA WEIR ARABELLA WEIR JOHNNY WEIR Back in the days of Apollo, sending humans to the moon was the only viable way to get the scientific... ANDY WEIR BOB WEIR JOHNNY WEIR BOB WEIR JOHNNY WEIR ARABELLA WEIR JOHNNY WEIR ARABELLA WEIR JOHNNY WEIR MIKE WEIR JOHNNY WEIR A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. S... ANDY WEIR Research into manned spaceflight is shifting from low-Earth orbit to destinations much further away,... ANDY WEIR BOB WEIR ARABELLA WEIR My first book was so horrible I have deleted all copies of it. Thankfully, it was before the Interne... ANDY WEIR They say once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially ‘colonised’ it. So technically, I co... ANDY WEIR WATNEY: Look! A pair of boobs! -> (.Y.). ANDY WEIR [19:29] JOHANSSEN: When we pick you up, I will make wild, passionate love to you. Prepare your body.... ANDY WEIR Tomorrow night, I'll sink to an all new low! Lemme rephrase that... Tomorrow night, I'll be at rock ... ANDY WEIR He’s stuck out there. He thinks he’s totally alone and that we all gave up on him. What kind of ... ANDY WEIR BOB WEIR BOB WEIR BOB WEIR BOB WEIR BOB WEIR BOB WEIR BOB WEIR BOB WEIR BOB WEIR MIKE WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR MIKE WEIR A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. Don't wait for an inspired ending to c... ANDY WEIR BOB WEIR MIKE WEIR JOHNNY WEIR MIKE WEIR MIKE WEIR MIKE WEIR MIKE WEIR I got to work with Rachel Dratch, and she just had such a funny, roll-with-it attitude when she woul... STEPHNIE WEIR JOHNNY WEIR ARABELLA WEIR JOHNNY WEIR MIKE WEIR JOHNNY WEIR MIKE WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR BOB WEIR ARABELLA WEIR Not enough,” Annie said. “The press is crawling down my throat for this. And up my ass. Both dir... ANDY WEIR BOB WEIR JOHNNY WEIR All I can do is knuckle down, write something really good, and hope someone responds to it. STEPHNIE WEIR MIKE WEIR MIKE WEIR The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films... PETER WEIR The NSA?"ANDY WEIR MIKE WEIR MIKE WEIR MIKE WEIR If someone offered me a free trip to the International Space Station, I would decline. I like Earth.... ANDY WEIR Just so we're clear, Mark Watney is who I want to be. He has all the qualities I like about myse... ANDY WEIR There's nothing I would like more than to watch a manned Mars landing. ANDY WEIR I originally wrote 'The Martian' as a free serial novel, posting one chapter at a time to my... ANDY WEIR ARABELLA WEIR ARABELLA WEIR ARABELLA WEIR I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom.' Would I make that into a film? I think it's ... PETER WEIR ARABELLA WEIR Thanks to our modern era, facts are incredibly easy to come by. A few web searches for your subject ... ANDY WEIR MIKE WEIR MIKE WEIR JOHNNY WEIR After three years, I tried to repeal the charter. RUSSELL WEIR The oldest (graves) are in the front, the newest in the back. JANE WEIR BOB WEIR BOB WEIR BOB WEIR BOB WEIR BOB WEIR BOB WEIR BOB WEIR BOB WEIR BOB WEIR BOB WEIR BOB WEIR BOB WEIR BOB WEIR BOB WEIR BOB WEIR MIKE WEIR MIKE WEIR JOHNNY WEIR MIKE WEIR MIKE WEIR ARABELLA WEIR JOHNNY WEIR We really have to make profound changes. I'm really looking forward to working hard and diligently .... ELIZABETH WEIR MIKE WEIR I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural o... 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I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It w... 
I read all of the nonfiction that I could find on Chechnya, and all the while, I was searching for a... 
I hadn't read the novel Bleak House . I'd read Dickens, but not this novel. I'd read several of his ... 
It was 1981. I was working on a novel. And I put that novel aside one day after I read a newspaper a... 
But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own... 
Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I re... 
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. 
Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote th... 
I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wante... 
I usually submit a novel at a certain number of words, and when I've finished working with my ed... 
I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo... 
When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I ... 
When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I... 
When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a seri... 
When I read it now it's like I have broken into a reality that is not mine, and when I step out of i... 
When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long... 
A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about i... 
I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bi... 
I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had mor... 
It was difficult, but I tried to think about it like any other job. We have got an incredible script... 
A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a ... 
'Divergent' was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn't the plan. I never even set out to ... 
I feel very strongly that history has mostly been written by men, and even when it is not prejudiced... 
When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I bre... 
I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, ... 
You know, I was a kid who had difficulty speaking English when I first immigrated. But in my head, w... 
I started a version of my French historical novel... I found it utterly fascinating. 
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing s... 
I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She gra... 
There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies m... 
...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence a... 
When I want to read a novel, I write one. 
When I was excited about life, I didn't want to write at all. I've never written when I was happy. I... 
When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't ... 
We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be ... 
When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy... 
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest th... 
It was really the most beautiful love story I had ever read, and I couldn't not do it. 
I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of "Uncle Tom's Children".... 
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't... 
When I was on 'SNL,' I was getting weirdly anxious about being on camera, which I had never ... 
Those books of mine really got under their skin. Ironically, they thought I was inhuman becau... 
My dad read, I think, the Perry Mason mysteries and Zane Grey and some humor compendiums... And then... 
I was worried that only acting with my voice and my face, I might not be able to communicate effecti... 
When I was 10 years old, I loved - I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I... 
I grew my beard out a little bit just to show that, indeed, I am a man. 
I'm different, and I have to be a warrior to be that way. But I have had some success; I hope I ... 
Nobody gets lucky all the time. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody's a robot. Nobody's perf... 
In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new d... 
Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls 
I actually had a Bobby Orr action figure. You could put the pads on him and skates and all that. I w... 
I'm looking forward to some more solo acoustic dates. That's a lot of fun for me, because I ... 
The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer&#... 
I have always had a certain aversion to heat. And for me, the name of the game on the stage is '... 
I was not great behind the counter. I had a week off without asking for it. Another time, we had a c... 
My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disa... 
I really pushed for the event to come here for a number of reasons. One was that you heard rumblings... 