Quotes about read

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“One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen.”

“I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.”

“I want leisure to read—an immense amount.”

“That was one thing about books: once you read them they couldn’t be unread.”

“She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.”

“The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.”

“Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean—reading is pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it.”

“There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.”

“Some people read books for fun.”

“Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.”

“I am a part of all I have read.”

“It’s in Latin.”
“So? What does it say?”
“I don’t read Latin!”
“You’re kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn’t that the international language for smart people?”

“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.”

“the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.”

“Reading is the basics for all learning.”

“Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.”

“By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent.”

“Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”

“If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.”

“When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.”

“This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.”

“Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.”

“Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.”

“I read in self-defense.”

“You wouldn't know a clue if it danced in front of you with a T-Shirt that read 'I'm a clue”

“I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the Zebra did it.”

“A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.”

“Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.”

“If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.”

“Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.”

“My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.”

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”

“Believe what you like, but don't believeyou read without questioning it.”

“Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.”

“I snatched the paper away from Dopey.
"Hey," he yelled. "I was reading that!"
"Let somebody who can pronounce all the big words have a try," I said.”

“And if you decide not to read anymore, hey, no problem, because you're not the one I was waiting for anyway. But if you decide to read on, then guess what? You're my kind of time being and together we'll make magic!”

“taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.”

“I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in the first place.”

“I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.”

“I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.”

“Reading is more important to me than eating.”

“Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which I forget that I am reading, but am instead immersed in a made-up life lived at the highest pitch.”

“What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.”

“I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living.”

“Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.”

“Oh, here’s a clever one. Do you remember this question from the first test? It reads, ‘What’s wrong with this statement?’ And do you know what Constance wrote in reply? She wrote, ‘What’s wrong with you?”

“We are reading the story of our lives
As though we were in it
As though we had written it.”

“A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.”

“Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form.”

“The stars know everything,
So we try to read their minds.
As distant as they are,
We choose to whisper in their presence.”

“By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.”

“The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”

“I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?”

“Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.”

“I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.”

“No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.”

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”

“As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left half-read at home and wishing I'd stuck it in my purse so I could pull it out now.”

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.”

“If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.”

“[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.”

“We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.”

“Look," said Janet, irritated, "if the thing you liked best to do in the world was read, and somebody offered to pay you room and board and give you a liberal arts degree if you would just read for four years, wouldn't you do it?”

“If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.”

“He had on a funny T-shirt, as usual. Today's featured acartoon figure running from a giant T. rex, and it read EXERCISE: SOME MOTIVATIONREQUIRED.”

“those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers…”

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”

“When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.”

“What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.”

“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.”

“I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.”

“… If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.”

“You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help.”

“If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.”

“As he bent closer, he realized they were words -- words his wife had carved into the cave ice with the last of her dying strength. As he read them, he felt them like three hard blows in the stomach.
KILL THE CHILD”

“I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom.”

“The art of reading is to skip judiciously.”

“There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'.”

“Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.”

“She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.”

“Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.”

“Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings… if you need little to set the imagination going, I require even less: the promise of reading is enough.”

“Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.”

“Reading can be dangerous.”

“I'd had years of practise looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn't know. It's a skill of mine. Annabeth keeps telling me to read a book of Greek myths, but I don't see the need. It's easier just to have folks explain stuff.”

“Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.”

“I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen”

“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”

“You're a leader. It's your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don't apologize to anybody.”

“Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.”

“Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.”

“You read too much and understand too little.”

“It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.”

“The main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you can have all the time you want for reading.”

“Did you read the book or did you just read the words in order?”

“How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.”

“Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.”

“I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons.”

“Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under chairs, books that I have read, books that I have not read.”