Read Quotes
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I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.
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I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me, thank God that I can read, that I have truly touched the minds of other men.
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Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.
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I'm one of those people that read a newspaper.
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Read with your soul, not with your eyes.
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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.
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In short, the books that were of paramount importance in early Christianity were for the most part read out loud by those who were able to read, so that the illiterate could hear, understand, and even study them. Despite the fact that early Christianity was by and large made up of illiterate believers, it was a highly literary religion.
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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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Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.
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Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.
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If Russians knew how to read they would write me off.
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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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I think if people read more, that is a better world.
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The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.
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To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.
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If you are still alive when you read this, close your eyes. I am under their lids, growing black.
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Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.
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I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.
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Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.
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Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.
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The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure.
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You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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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.
