Read Quotes
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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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When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.
Blaise Pascal
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Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.
Ngaio Marsh
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What is the moral? Who rides may read.
Rudyard Kipling
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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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This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.
Victor Hugo
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I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.
Mickey Kaus
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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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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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My best friends are books, I can easily read them and take them wherever I go.
Deborah Roberts
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Read everything you can get your hands on.
Alina Bronsky
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Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension. He is right most of the time.
Edwin Boring
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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
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Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.
Joanne Rowling
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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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Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.
Joyce Carol Oates
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We were all so young that there were no lines on our faces to read between.
Phyllis Theroux
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All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about.
Aurora Rose Reynolds
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If you read, you'll judge.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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We don't want to read a book. We want to live an experience.
Carolyn Wheat
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Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them.
Benjamin Rush
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... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.
Charles Dickens
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Read about the history of magic.
Andrew Mayne
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We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.
Will Schwalbe