Quotes about read

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“Doughboy," I said. "What is this scroll?"
"A spell lost in time!" he pronounced. "Ancient words of tremendous power!"
"Well?" I demanded. "Does it tell how to defeat Set?"
"Better! The title reads: The Book of Summoning Fruit Bats!”

“I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.”

“Um, sorry. I cant read the last line."
"Fish. Have you stolen any fish from the holy lakes?"
"I lived in Kansas.. So.. no”

“Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.”

“Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.”

“Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.”

“Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches.”

“No; that doesn't interest me.'
'That's because you never read a book about it.”

“Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.”

“You can't be real," Delilah murmurs.
"Says who?" I ask. "Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it?”

“Strange, i thought i knew you well, thought i had read the sky, thought i had seen a change in your eyes.”

“A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and I know it sounds hokey and librarianish to say so, but I just swooned when he did that.”

“Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.”

“I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.”

“All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.”

“The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.”

“This life is slow suicide, unless you read.”

“It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.”

“I must read.
I must read.
I must read.”

“Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape…. For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place.”

“I'd once read somewhere that is takes about half as long to recover from a deep relationship as the relationship lasted.”

“I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.”

“Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.”

“Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.”

“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”

“You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.”

“I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.”

“Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”

“I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal.”

“We read to know we're not alone.”

“Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.”

“Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.”

“Wet towel under the door,' said Barry. 'It's what you do when you're smoking weed in a hotel and you don't want everyone calling security. You're always supposed to have a towel. I read about it in a guide for hitchhiking through the galaxy.”

“No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.”

“Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.”

“The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life.”

“The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written.”

“The woman said something to Roman. He stopped, turned to her, and shook his staff.
She crossed her arms. I couldn't see her face, but I read the body language well enough.”

“Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.”

“She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.”

“Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.”

“Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.”

“The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.”

“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.”

“It is only by struggling with difficult books, books over one's head, that anyone learns to read.”

“He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.”

“But I kept it to myself--maybe because I didn't think it mattered, but probably because, in a place where everyone knew my story, it was nice to know there was a chapter that only I had read.”

“The wise man reads both books and life itself.”

“For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.”

“I'm done. I'm going to go to bed and read important books about theater."
"It would would be easier if you just said porn," Scarlett said.
"No idea what you're talking about. But knock first if you need me.”

“A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write.”

“One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life….”

“Frey was the god of spring and summer! read the caption. He was the god of wealth, abundance, and fertility. His twin sister, Freya, the goddess of love, was very pretty! She had cats!”

“All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create.
-from the Editor's Note, The Alpinist (April 1, 2010)”

“She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying.”

“The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper.”

“Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.”

“There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself.”

“our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read”

“Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.”

“Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.”

“I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.”

“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.”

“What are you reading?" Owen asks.
"Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died."
"You ought to read the book from end to beginning," Owen jokes. "That way, no one dies, and it's always a happy ending.”

“Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of”

“You learned this,” Kabsal said, lifting up her drawing of Jasnah, “from a book.”
“Er…yes?”
He looked back at the picture. “I need to read more.”

“Anxiety, the next gumption trap, is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. Often this, rather than "laziness," is the real reason you find it hard to get started. This gumption trap of anxiety, which results from over-motivation, can lead to all kinds of errors of excessive fussiness. You fix things that don't need fixing, and chase after imaginary ailments. You jump to wild conclusions and build all kinds of errors into the machine because of your own nervousness. These errors, when made, tend to confirm your original underestimation of yourself. This leads to more errors, which lead to more underestimation, in a self-stoking cycle. The best way to break this cycle, I think, is to work out your anxieties on paper. Read every book and magazine you can on the subject. Your anxiety makes this easy and the more you read the more you calm down.”

“I am Envy… I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.”

“Who or what inspires you?"
"I must admit that I often read my own articles in scientific journals and inspire myself.”

“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”

“Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.”

“Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you’ve lost something, even if you’re not sure what it is.”

“Their house had real hard-cover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read.”

“Never trust a man who reads only one book.”

“A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.”

“Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and furthered the race of men, are those who have made direct use of the book of the world.”

“You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading… and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.”

“I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy”

“Jasnah Kholin's words read.”

“Turn," Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pace.”

“There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book. Do not abandon me.”

“If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.”

“Poetry is not the most important thing in life… I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.”

“There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.”

“Leo's biggest surprise: One look from Jason, and all three of them knew the game plan. When had that happened, that they could read each other so well?”

“I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people have worn out my books, or that they're held together by Scotch tape.”

“I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.”

“Only now that my son was gone did I realize how much I'd been living for him. When I woke up in the morning it was because he existed, and when I ordered food it was because he existed, and when I wrote my book it was because he existed to read it.”

“.

"Most times, when I'm having sex, I'd rather be reading."
This was, I admit, a strange thing to say on a second date.
I guess I was just giving you a warning.
"Most times when I'm reading," you said, "I'd rather be having sex".”

“Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong.”

“We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.”

“One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”

“In a place where everyone knew my story, it was nice to know there was a chapter that ONLY I HAD TO READ. :)”

“Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.”

“whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like.”

“I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.”

“Meddling, smug, stupid little…"
"She likes me! They always play hard to get when they like me!"
"No. You do not understand. I could not have done it because I can not read or write.”

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.”

“We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.”