Read Quotes
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If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!
Mr. T
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This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.
Victor Hugo
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I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and don't remember anything about them afterwards. But I read all sorts, from classic to contemporary.
Rebecca Hall
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Read everything you can get your hands on.
Alina Bronsky
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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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You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.
Evan Esar
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Birds are hard to draw. I read recently that Katsuhiro Otomo also says he has trouble drawing animals, and while it made me feel better, it didn't make it easier for me.
Stuart Immonen
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I am guaranteeing you that if you see my byline on a story, it's going to be the cleanest story you've ever read.
Michael Finkel
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Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.
George Bernard Shaw
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All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.
Nick Hornby
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What is the moral? Who rides may read.
Rudyard Kipling
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I only read email early in the morning or in the evenings, which isn't perfect, but that's how I like it. I don't want to spend my day doing that.
Rajeev Suri
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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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Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I am one of them - abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states.
Ada Louise Huxtable
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Since it is visual art, you know, you’re drawing from everything. But I tend to draw from what I read not from a visual thing. Most of my stuff comes from historical things that I read that are kind of obscure and that people don’t know much about, like the formation of the Christian church, stuff like that.
Barron Claiborne
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If we could read the minds of animals we would find only truths.
Anthony Douglas Williams
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To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.
Joanne Rowling
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Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.
Joseph Pulitzer
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I still don't know how to read music.
Richard Manuel
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I've read too many books to believe what I am told.
Suheir Hammad
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One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.
Joy Williams