"Lifelong readers continue to read, finding in books the means to enjoy life or endure it"

“Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.”

“I couldn't bear to see a chapter of the gospel turned into a chapter of Trollope.”

“I don't think I have the pulling power of Jim Carrey.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 15, 2015

“There are some people who have been reading me for years, and they keep saying kind things about the writing. That's what you're writing for, to get people to respond to it.”

“Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture is two-dimensional.”

“I like the fact that a modern television and modern drama on cable has characters that are really intricate and deep and have multiple layers.”

Source : "Matthew Lillard Talks the Bridge Season 2, His Favorite Aspect of the Character, the Scream Tv Show, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 20, 2014.

“If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original.”