Read Quotes
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
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If you're a writer, and you write fiction, that's not all you read.
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I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.
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Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.
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People enjoy being read to, beginning from when they're little.
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The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.
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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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I only really love a book when I have read it at least four times.
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Read to live, not live to read.
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Something just happens when you read a part. You know, if you'd like to do it or if you don't believe it.
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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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Why did she talk to me about how soles were ground and not about what she read?
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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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Have you reckoned a thousand acres much? have you reckoned the earth much? Have you practised so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
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I would stand there and read them. Well, not read them; I would look at them.
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Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.
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What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be.... a tour de force by one of England's best novelists.... Atonement is a spectacular book; as good a novel - and more satisfying... - than anything McEwan has written....sublimely written narrative.... The Dunkirk passage is a stupendous piece of writing, a set piece that could easily stand on its own.
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Scared to read my paper, can't look at TV.
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I tried, after I wrote 'Twilight,' to read 'The Historian,' because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read other people's vampires. If it's too close, I get upset; if it's too far away, I get upset. It just makes me very neurotic.
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I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.
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The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.
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When I go to buy a book, I always ask if it is right for me at this time, something I need right now. I think a lot of people go out and buy books because they love to read. They read it really fast and then move on to the next book. I don't do that.
