Read Quotes
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I'm totally obsessed with Dickens, and 'Great Expectations' was one of the first book's I read when I was still in school in Porthcawl.
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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.
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A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else, in order to learn from the lives of great men.
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
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I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
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She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her to. Instead she practiced the art of bibliomancy, trusting the book to show her what it wanted her to know.
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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.
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The friends of tabloid newspapers often point out that their journalism exists only because millions of people pay money to read it.
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When I was young, I kept trying to read 'Moby-Dick', and I couldn't get that far into it. And I kept thinking, 'Well, man, if I can't read the great American novel, I could never be a writer.' And this bothered me a great deal.
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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.
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I am not read well, but when I do read, I read well.
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Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
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Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.
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The Brightwood Stillness is a novel I could not put down. On the surface, it is the lives of normal people in trying circumstances. Deeper, it is an uncannily perceptive exploration of male psychology… Pomeroy is a brave new voice capable of taking us beyond the clichés of war and its aftermath and into the secret heart of every man. This is simply the best novel I’ve read in a long time.
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Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.
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I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the other viewers.
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We were aiming for a cross between Kafka and Orwell, which just goes to show how dangerous it can be when your police officers are better read than you are.
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Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.
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On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize: I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize.
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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Actors don't like to read what they're supposed to do.
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You can read about yourself but what's important is how you feel about yourself.
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To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.
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What is the moral? Who rides may read.
