Read Quotes
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Kids are all computer-savvy. Sit down and write to your parents on the computer. And just say, I have some questions and I'm scared. There's some stuff I don't know and I really need to talk to you about sex. Tear it off and put it on their pillow. They'll read it.
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I like a new clean book, freshly bound, particularly when I am the first to read it. I like dirty books - where other people have been before me, slipping fried eggs between the pages as markers - rather less.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the next popular book.
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Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.
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I've had that conversation! "You had a minute! Why didn't you do that?" So if husbands could read our minds that would be great.
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I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.
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I have read your book and much like it.
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Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.
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Our masterpieces are Shakespeare and Jane Austen and griots and Murasaki Shikibu, but they’re also J.K. Rowling and Chuck Palahnuik and Douglas Adams and Amy Tan and Suzanne Collins and Chinua Achebe. Read. Read them all. Read the books you love, and try to read books you don’t. Read the genres you love, but sometimes also read a book outside your comfort zone. Read voraciously.
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Don't believe everything you read.
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If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.
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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 want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house.
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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
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A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.
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When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.
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You can read about yourself but what's important is how you feel about yourself.
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I don't think there's any law where you have to read a poem and immediately understand it.
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These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.
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When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own - the place where we live - and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves
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I read a lot of scripts, so I know by page 25 if I like it or not.
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Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.
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Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent.
