Quotes about read

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“I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the geeky talk and walk the geeky walk, but they make killer chocolate chip pancakes and so all is forgiven.”

Rob Thurman (1950) American writer

“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”

Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic

“Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.”

Sherman Alexie (1966) Native American author and filmmaker

“Lei had recently discovered how to change the display, like the Times Square JumboTron, so now the banner read: Merry Christmas! All your presents belong to Leo!”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Diaries

“Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.”

Mark Haddon (1962) English writer and illustrator

“Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ.”

Lois Duncan (1934–2016) American young-adult and children's writer

“When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.”

Matt Haig (1975) British writer

“I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.”

Marjane Satrapi (1969) Artist

“In the quiet spaces opened up by the prolonged, undistracted reading of a book, people made their own associations, drew their own inferences and analogies, fostered their own ideas. They thought deeply as they read deeply.”

Nicholas Carr (1959) American writer

“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.”

Pete Seeger (1919–2014) American folk singer

“Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.”

Tom Bissell (1974) American journalist

“Oh, I don't read. I skulk about in search of quotations that might make me appear educated.”

Tasha Alexander (1969) American writer

“Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.”

Philip Yancey (1949) American writer

“How are you? How is your wonderful bathroom? How are the books you read and the things you think? Your dogs and their lives? The weather? Your feelings?”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

“Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

“If you're not reading - with your heart as well as your brain - you will be one stupid grown up. Even worst, you'll be missing out on one of the best experiences you can possibly have. Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

“Will!" Charlotte threw up her hands. "Why didn't you say so?"
"You know, the books on demon pox are in the library," Will said with an injured tone. "I wasn't preventing anyone from reading them”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

“Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.”

Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress

“What are you reading for?”

Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian

“Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.”

Stephen King book Different Seasons

“Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.”

Roland Barthes (1915–1980) French philosopher, critic and literary theorist

“Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on.”

Richard Carlson (1961–2006) Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker

“People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.”

Zelda Fitzgerald book Save Me the Waltz

“She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.”

Thorne Smith (1892–1934) an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction

“The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

“write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

“In reading we must become creators.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

“Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

“Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

“To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“Her name badge read: Hello! My name is DIE, DEMIGOD SCUM!”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

“I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.”

Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist

“I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we’re friendly. So there.”

Maria Dahvana Headley (1977) American writer

“… that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

“Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.
I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
I like a pipe for a Christmas present,
or records — Bessie, bop, or Bach.
I guess being colored doesn’t make me not like
the same things other folks like who are other races.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

“Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement.”

Robert Musil book The Man Without Qualities

“When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.”

Eugene H. Peterson (1932–2018) American translator

“Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.”

Noel Coward (1899–1973) English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer

“Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.”

Daniel Pennac (1944) French author

“He that loves reading has everything within his reach.”

William Godwin (1756–1836) English journalist, political philosopher and novelist

“We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

“Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.”

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer

“Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness—if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

“That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.”

Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) English novelist (1815-1882)

“I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being”

LeVar Burton (1957) actor, director

“Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.”

James Madison (1751–1836) 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)

“When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, 'How can you write a middle-aged woman this well?' I said, 'If you met my mom you wouldn't ask'.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

“If V’lane were a signpost, it would read Abandon All Personal Will, Ye Who Tread Here.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

“Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.”

David Hume (1711–1776) Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian

“I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?”

Bill Willingham (1956) American comics writer and artist

“May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about other than the weather and the Queen's health. Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

“Whatever happened to the good old days when books just got along, cozied up together on bookshelves, hanging out, waiting to be read?”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

“At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.”

Tasha Alexander (1969) American writer

“Once he'd even reprogrammed the electronic billboards in Time Square to read: ALL DA LADIES LUV LEO… accidentally, of course.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

“Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks…”

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet

“It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”

Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) British poet

“Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature.”

Renata Adler (1938) American author, journalist and film critic

“These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other ways they can never really be.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

“A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.”

Earl Nightingale (1921–1989) American motivational speaker

“My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.”

Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer

“She likes to read, she reads all the time, and she prefers to be reading several things at once, she says it gives endless perspective and dimension.”

Ali Smith book Autumn

“The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I realized that to me, there had only ever been one boy.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

“She felt as if she bled her regret and loneliness from her very pores, and yet she could not shape those feelings into any sentiment she could imagine her parents could bear reading.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

“If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.”

David Sedaris (1956) American author

“Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair”

Stephen King (1947) American author

“Please,” Alec said, pulling out his stele. “I can read your face like a very open, very pornographic book. I wish I couldn’t.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

“So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?”

Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter

“How does Galdoila know about the reward?" i asked.
"He reads the signs," Grover said. "Duh."
"Of course," I said. "Silly me.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

“The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

“I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they’re cramming for their final exam.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

“Love and Loyalty, run deeper than blood." Love that quote even though I haven't read the book.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

“Reading never wears me out.”

Ian Falconer (1959) American illustrator and writer, costume and set designer

“To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I agree'.”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

“Nowadays I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.”

Zadie Smith book Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

“Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course.”

Andrew Lang (1844–1912) Scots poet, novelist and literary critic

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”

Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author

“There are chapters in every life which are seldom read, and certainly not aloud.”

Carol Shields The Stone Diaries

“It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

“I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life… her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing.”

Maya Angelou book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.”

James Joyce Ulysses

“Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.”

Lori Lansens book The Girls

“And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will find Deliverance from Sin a much greater Blessing than Deliverance from Affliction.”

Daniel Defoe La vie et les aventures de Robinson Crusoe

“Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.”

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist

“Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you.”

Percival Everett book I Am Not Sidney Poitier

“The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

“The girl behind the scrawled letters. I loved you from the moment I read them. I love you still.” - Will Herondale”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

“Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.”

Italo Calvino (1923–1985) Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels

“You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it… but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the same, I will do my best to make horrible things happen to a bunch of white people before something else so graphic hits a minority character.”

Robert Kirkman (1978) American comic book writer

“To read makes our speaking English good.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

“Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork — reading, writing, thinking — can.”

Helen Gurley Brown (1922–2012) American author, editor, publisher, and businesswoman

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
'His sins were scarlet, But his books were read.”

Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) writer

“Read in order to live.”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)