Quotes about read

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“One reads alone, even in another's presence.”

“I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was simply a companion to my own.”

“By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.”

“This book will take you two days to read. Did you even see the cover? It’s mostly pink. If you’re reading this book every night for months, something is not right.”

“See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.”

“We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.”

“The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.”

“I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.”

“But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create.”

“Would you mind getting off that fly paper and giving the flies a chance?"
"Ahhh, you can't trick me! Flies don't read papers!”

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”

“I want life. I want to read it and write it and feel it and live it. I want, for as much of the time as possible in this blink-of-an-eye existence we have, to feel all that can be felt.”

“In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued."

(From a speech read on video on August 31, 1995 before the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China)”

“One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.”

“I hate it when people imply that people only read because they have nothing better to do.”

“I'm an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room and melt into it. I can become invisible. It's an art, and I am a wonderful practitioner.”

“If you like not my writing, go read something else.”

“I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.”

“[ Woe be to him that reads but one book. ]”

“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.”

“We know now that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can
play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the
morning.”

“The books that have helped me most are the ones I reacted to, not just read”

“I often carry things to read
so that I will not have to look at
the people.”

“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”

“When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.”

“Both read the Bible day and night,
But thou read'st black where I read white.”

“A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment.”

“The greatest gift is the passion for reading.
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,
it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.
It is a moral illumination.”

“the moment you don't feel like praying, get on your knees. And the moment you don't feel like reading your bible, you'd better get that Book open.”

“Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are sitting there silently, not moving, totally absorbed. Just like me.”

“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.”

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”

“i believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try and make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. then you write for who you love whether they can read or write or not and whether they are alive or dead.”

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”

“… she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.”

“As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.”

“And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.”

“Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is going to suck.”

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”

“Hazel!” he yelled. “That box! Open it!”
She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te label read WARNING. DO NOT OPEN.
“Open it!” Leo yelled again.”

“We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.”

“This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.”

“Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our hearts, or make us angry enough to change the world.”

“Cruel of heart, lay down my song.
Your reading eyes have done me wrong.
Not for you was the pen bitten,
And the mind wrung, and the song written.”

“My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.”

“If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.”

“I wanted to read all these books, but I would have to have been in a rest home or something to do that (p. 37,).”

“If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.”

“College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.”

“I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened".”

“With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.”

“I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.”

“Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.”

“I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.”

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

“None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.”

“I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.”

“The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.”

“When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.”

“The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.”

“I have a weakness for tough guys who read.”

“If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.”

“You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the Lord on Judgement Day when He asks you why you didn't read your bible? Hmm?"I said. To myself.”

“I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!”

“No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it
are no longer the same interpreters.”

“Daisy had known the novel was silly even as she had read it, but that had not detracted one bit from her enjoyment.”

“Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.”

“Show him every dawn & read to him endlessly.”

“How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place?

I read his mind.

I matched his DNA.

I smelled him.

I also did that.”

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive.”

“I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world.”

“Most people worth knowing enjoy reading.”

“We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs of glasses we have. And those glasses enable us to see things we would have otherwise missed.”

“When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.”

“It is not mysterious to be home on a Saturday night, reading a novel in a pile of smelly golden retrievers.”

“I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.”

“If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?”

“News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.”

“Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.”

“Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read… if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.”

“And now Rocky is begging me to watch Dora the Explorer with him. I understand that millions of kids love Dora and have learned to read or whatever from her show. But I wouldn't mind if Dora fell off a cliff and took her little pals with her”

“OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.”

“Read like a wolf eats.”

“I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world.”

“When she wanted to escape her life, she read books”

“If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?”

“She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn’t taste bad, but she was still unhappy.”

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”

“I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.”

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”

“Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted small talk.”

“Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.”

“The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.”

“The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials.”

“I read poetry to save time.”

“The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.”

“I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.”

“When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.”

“At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.”