Reading Magazines Quotes:

I love and admire everyone who is different. I love that. The 'jet set' is banal. 'Good taste' is banal. Eccentricity is chic. Good taste paralyzes. But punk or street fashion or a tattoo-covered body, that is interesting to me, and that I love. I didn't go to fashion school. I learned from watching couture shows on TV and reading magazines. That made me dream.

- Jean Paul Gaultier

topic: Tattoo, Dream, Fashion, Couture, Reading Magazines

Reading, at the deepest level, is a physical experience. Most people are not attuned to this, most people don't learn how to read - poetry for example, or high-quality prose. They're used to reading magazines and newspapers, which are only of the mind, but not of the body.

- Paul Auster

source: Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

topic: Reading, People, Mind, Reading Magazines, High Quality

As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly.

- Paul Rudnick

topic: Morning, Reading, Procrastination, Infomercials, Writer's Block

Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and watching television, hope for eternal life.....The life I want is a life I could not endure in eternity. It is a life of love and intensity, suffering and creation, that makes life worth while and death welcome. There is no other life I should prefer. Neither should I like not to die.

- Walter Kaufmann

source: "The Faith of a Heretic" by Walter Kaufmann, Princeton University Press, Ch. 12 (pp. 374-375), 1961.

topic: Reading, People, Suffering, Watching Television, Reading Magazines

I never understood why anyone would do magazines. Like, why would someone put their face out there so much? It's because those people reading magazines will go see the movie, so you do it.

- Elizabeth Olsen

topic: Reading, People, Magazines, Reading Magazines

I never just sit down and see what's on TV anymore. And also, I hate almost everything, so that keeps you reading magazines and doing crossword puzzles or whatever.

- Andy Richter

source: Interview with Jonathan R. de la Manzana, Jr., believermag.com. September 1, 2003.

topic: Hate, Reading, Magazines, Crosswords, Reading Magazines

Silence. There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise and distraction.

- Eric Lange

source: "Eric Lange from FX's hit show The Bridge". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Silence, Want, Noise, Watching Television, Reading Magazines