Rand Paul Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
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In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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I never read about photography.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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My mother taught me to read.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.
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For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
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I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
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I would read all day if I could.
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When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I'd read something like, you know, 'Subtle hints of cassis.'
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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People who read are people who dream.
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When I left the University of Santo Tomas, I had but a smattering of Spanish. My friends made sport of me. What keen mortification did I suffer at my ignorance! One day, no longer able to stand the jeerings of my friends, I made up my mind to learn Spanish. I purchased a dozen good novels and began to read. I did not spend hours over a grammar, but just kept on reading, taking care to remember the idioms. In the meantime my library grew. At the end of three years my knowledge of Spanish and of literature in general was far beyond that of my friends. It was then my turn to laugh!
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I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.
