Quotes about read

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“Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so.”

“Storiesto be read, David's mother would whisper. They needed it. It was the reason they forced themselves from their world into ours. They wanted us to give them life.”

“I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.”

“He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good”

“Do you ever read any of the books you burn?"
He laughed. "That's against the law!"
"Oh. Of course.”

“Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”

“Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.”

“Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.”

“I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.”

“It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read,
I need protection from the things in my head…”

“That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own.”

“Did you read the instructions?” He shook his head. “Why, were you afraid they’d take your man card away?” “Are you going to help me or just make fun of me?” “Can’t I do both?”

“People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.”

“I love his dear eyes in which the vulnerability and beauty of his soul can be plainly read.”

“If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.”

“When I first read the dictionary, I thought it was a long poem about everything.”

“The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed.”

“You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.”

“I would rather have someone read my diary than look at my iPod playlists.”

“My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.”

“I read that speaking in front of a crowd is the number-one fear in America. I found that amazing. Number two was death. Number two! That means that, if you're ever at a funeral, you'd rather be in the casket than giving the eulogy.”

“There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.”

“Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.”

“Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same
feelings."

"I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be
no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.”

“Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he”

“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”

“I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.”

“This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.”

“Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.”

“Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects.”

“It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.”

“Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.”

“If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big colour photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer.”

“Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.”

“Half the American people never read a newspaper. Half never vote for President — the same half?”

“Take no heed of her…. She reads a lot of books.”

“Man is what he reads.”

“Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature.

Information is control.”

“If I have not read a book before, it is, to all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.”

“It was not uncommon to walk in the door of their home and find my mother sitting on the sofa reading over a manuscript with shampoo horns sculpted into her hair. Anne Sexton's voice would be blasting from the speakers.”

“I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?”

“Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.”

“Reading's my reward at the end of the day”

“I'll not have my grandson subjected to the humiliation of his reading becoming public. We have to cope with this disgrace discreetly -- Grandma Ruth”

“Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out is mute. Only chance can speak to us. We read its message much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds at the bottom of the cup.”

“Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.”

“I read once that explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog," Mark said. "You find out how it works, but the frog dies in the process.”

“But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?”

“The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.”

“He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.”

“Write in the morning, revise in the afternoon, read at night, and spend the rest of your time exercising your diplomacy, stealth, and charm.”

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.”

“Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?”

“In truth, I wanted her to read my mind so I didn't have to stoop to the womanly art of articulation.”

“Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed.”

“Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.”

“Anyone who thinks one book has all the answers hasn't read enough books.”

“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.”

“Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.”

“No two persons ever read the same book.”

“And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never would have something you recognize immediately.”

“Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.”

“Zara: It's just a registry…
Kit: Am I the only one who's read X-Men and realizes why this is a bad idea?”

“Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.”

“Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads.”

“I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.”

“My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India.”

“people's emotions are rarely put into words, far more often they are expressed through other cues.
the key to intuiting another's feelings is in the ability to read nonverbal channels, tone of voice, gesture, facial expression and the like”

“A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.”

“Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.”

“A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.”

“Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?”

“On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.”

“I read somewhere that 77 percent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 percent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.”

“This Treasury paper, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.”

“Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.”

“It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.”

“Twenty times in the course of my late reading have I been on the point of breaking out, 'This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!!!”

“Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.”

“When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think”

“Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyre because it is a romance and I know romance is crap.”

“I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.”

“Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read. I would read them together with you, as many as I can, before I die.”

“To a philosopher all news is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.”

“Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?”

“Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.”

“buying books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.”

“Reading those books is all he does these days. I think he’s even read some of them. What kind of disturbed individual would read the same book twice, I ask you?”

“I'm a man of few words."
"If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary.”

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”

“To read is to withdraw. To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less… selfish.”

“Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important it finds homes for us everywhere.”

“It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.”

“And you read your emily dickinson,
And I my robert frost.
And we note our place with bookmarkers
That measure what weve lost.”

“I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.”

“I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.”

“That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.”

“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. If only they would read a little Dickens or Kipling they would soon discover there was more to life than cheating people and watching television.”

“As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.”