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I was a Marvel guy. I started reading comics when I was a kid. -- Marc Webb
When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade. -- Eddie Huang
I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it. -- Larry Gagosian
When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner. -- Frances Mayes
Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays. -- Patrick White
I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure. -- Natasha Trethewey
I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you. -- Ben Carson
I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed. -- Kate DiCamillo
I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush. -- Oscar Isaac
And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about. -- Lawrence Taylor
Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress. -- Kate Atkinson
When I found out I was pregnant, the first thing that had to go was the acne medicine and chemical-filled face washes and lotions. I made sure everything was natural and organic, and I started reading blogs by other pregnant women. -- Marisa Miller
We can't deny that films have a bigger reach. After the popularity of the 'Slumdog Millionaire,' a lot of people started reading Vikas Swarup's 'Q & A'. From a business sense, films are a good tool to increase the number of readers. -- Ashwin Sanghi
When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to go to school, in third or fourth grade, and, for several hours, I would read 'The Iliad' or 'The Odyssey.' -- Franz Wright
When I was pregnant, a few of my friends told me that their babies slept in bed with them. I remember thinking how crazy that was. Then I started reading up on it and decided it was something I actually wanted to try. -- Kourtney Kardashian
I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it. -- Harvey Weinstein
As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner up in Northern California, and all the political New Journalism stuff, the Boys on the Bus dudes and Ken Kesey. -- Stephen Gaghan
Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't. -- Joan Didion
Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved. -- Alan Dean Foster
I have to admit that 'Psychology Today' was one of the first magazines I started reading, back when I was 13 or 14, because I was the kind of kid that was curious about the mysterious human mind - I hoped to learn about telekenisis, multiple personalities, psychosis, and various other cool and terrible things that happened inside people's heads. -- Dan Chaon
I did not even go to kindergarten; I just started first grade when I was five and started reading right away. I don't know how it all worked, but I had a lot of adults and older siblings around me. So, I guess I was probably introduced to what one would be introduced to at that time in kindergarten. -- Joan Ganz Cooney
I like to tell kids that I started thinking about stories when I first started reading stuff like Dr. Seuss and 'Go, Dog. Go!,' thinking, 'Oh yeah, that's funny. I'd like to do that.' And then writing throughout school, but at the same time I was studying pre-med stuff, because my mom told me I should be a doctor. -- Jon Scieszka
When I first started reading about the kabbalists, I would hear about them being seen in strange places. It would turn out that they were doing some kind of spiritual work to elevate the sparks. In my life and career, I've had the opportunity to find myself where I could make some spiritual moves, to do some work that is spiritually important. -- Matisyahu
I got the script for 'Real Steel.' I started reading and saw that it was about robot boxing, and I was immediately turned off. It's not my thing. But I continued on, and by the time I got to the end of the script, I had chicken skin and tears in my eyes. I thought, 'Man, we don't make movies like this anymore.' -- Evangeline Lilly
I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like crazy right after high school when I got a job in a mental hospital. I was working my way through college, and I did a lot of night shifts, and there was nothing to do. So I read like crazy, serious stuff, all the classics. -- James Patterson
I started writing as soon as I started reading. -- Michael Koryta
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I started reading when I was about three, a little over three. -- Chuck Jones
I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life. -- Richard Ford
Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar. -- James Taylor
I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit. -- Harold Ramis
I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more. -- James Patterson
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. -- Octavia Butler
I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real. -- Austin Peck
I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. -- Larry Gagosian
I started writing In Darkness out of a frustration of the quality of roles that I was reading in scripts for women. -- Natalie Dormer
For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader. -- Lisa Lucas
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
I felt like Jason Behr and I had such a unique chemistry. He just walked in and we started reading together, it was just there -- Shiri Appleby
I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting. -- Hamish Bowles
I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd. -- Erik Larson
When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. But when Bush got elected, that was the first time I started actually reading the news. -- Bjork
When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are reading, I don't care what they're reading. -- Sandra Cisneros
I gave my heart to Jesus. I accepted him as my Lord and Savior, started reading the Bible, started going to a church (and) started a relationship with Jesus. -- Patricia Mauceri
I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is-a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate. -- Suzanne Somers
When I was a kid, I read many more Marvel comics than I did DC. As I got older, in high school and then in college, I started reading more DC. -- David S. Goyer
I really didn't know much about theater. After I signed on, I started reading a lot of Sam Shepard plays just to brush up on my history and do some research. -- Taissa Farmiga
I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you. -- Ben Carson
When I was dealing with the eating disorder, I wanted to look like the stick-thin models, but then I started reading fitness magazines and seeing these girls with great bodies that weren't too muscular. -- Torrie Wilson
Every free minute away from dance (my main focus) I was memorizing new English words, either showering, walking or on the toilet. I started reading English books even though I had very limited vocabulary. -- Li Cunxin
It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else. -- John Waters
I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when I was twelve or something. I was reading The Witch of Blackbird Pond. -- Leni Zumas

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