Read Quotes
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Clear, and compassionate, this collection illuminates the problems and opportunities that flowed from Christchurch after the quakes, and interrogates the manmade disaster that followed. Everyone should read this book.
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I'm pragmatic. I like efficiency. I want to read what's in front of me and not have my hands tied.
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I don't generally read a lot of fiction.
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One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.
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I would stand there and read them. Well, not read them; I would look at them.
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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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Scared to read my paper, can't look at TV.
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My wife read Narc as well and was really into it.
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You know how children are, sometimes they love you by cuddling you, other times by trying to remake you from the start, reinvent you, as if they thought you were badly brought up and they had to teach you how to get on in the world, what music to listen to, what books to read, what films to see, the words you should use and those you shouldn’t because they’re old now, no one says that anymore.
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My thing has always been, sit down with me for an hour and base your judgments off that. That's all I ask. Don't go by what you read in the paper or hear in the streets.
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Read, read, read. That's all I can say.
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In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.
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The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.
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The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.
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People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
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This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
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I only read a book if I feel intuitively led to read it.
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You are what you read.
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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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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 like to read books. I like to listen to music.
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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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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
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We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.
