Read Quotes
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I have read your book, and I disapprove.
Jane Austen
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In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.
Aristotle
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I'm a huge history buff. It was no hardship to read history textbooks for homework.
Noah Wyle
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She was staring at a picture of me and Sam when we were seven. No front teeth. We were standing in the front yard. It was summer and the leaves of her mulberry tree were behind us. The caption read: She was always my sister.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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We all believe what we read. I read how Tom Cruise and I were two big egos holding up shooting. I know that isn't true - but if I wasn't making a movie with him and I just picked up the paper, I'd believe it. That's interesting, isn't it?
Dustin Hoffman
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Once I’m done with a book, I’m done! I’m just not a sequel kind of girl. By the time I’ve finished a book I’ve read it so many times that it’s time to move on.
Sarah Dessen
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They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.
Nikita Khrushchev
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We read not to escape, but to go deeper into life.
Joseph Monninger
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I think most people, including me, like to read gossipy things about others: revealing things that I love to read but I don't really want known about me.
Julia Davis
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I've tried to read, but I can't make it through more than a paragraph at a time. The floor is littered with abandoned newspapers and yogurt pots.
Camilla Gibb
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We read the future by the past.
Alexander Crummell
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The best way is not to read as much from the media and what they write.
Alexander Zverev
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You can't read my shorthand because I wrote in Polish.
Ellen Raskin
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When I first got the audition for Shado, I went online and subscribed to DC Comics and read a bunch on Shado and the Yakuza, just to get to know her character better.
Celina Jade
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I do find that people are incredibly naive about what it is to be a writer. Like you would pay an incredible amount of money for an MFA program and still not have the slightest idea of how one goes about becoming a writer. So, I'm always flabbergasted when people say, "Oh, I was invited to do a reading, but I'm not going to read because I don't have a book.".
Faith Adiele
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The last refuge of the intelligentsia: when life gets too difficult, go find something to read.
Judith Flanders
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I read a lot on autism, which is surprisingly and annoyingly a huge mystery.
Andrea Suarez Paz
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Read about the history of magic.
Andrew Mayne
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To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.
Alejandro Zambra
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For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time is to be reminded that we had forgotten well-nigh everything that the writer told us. Parting from the narrator and his narrative, we retain only a fading impression; and he, as it were, takes the book away from us and tucks it under his arm.
Brad Leithauser
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Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read?
David Markson
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It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little.
Denis Parsons Burkitt
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Read as much as possible, especially the work of writers who most deeply affect you. Make those writers your family. Never wait for inspiration to strike before getting to work; be disciplined and form the habit of writing every day.
Sigrid Nunez
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I'd much rather talk about guitar playing. I hate it when people ask me about my lyrics. I always feel like telling them to just go and read them.
James Hetfield Metallica