Read Quotes
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I think if people read more, that is a better world.
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Scared to read my paper, can't look at TV.
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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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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.
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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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Turn," Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pace.
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Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.
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Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.
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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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The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required kit ever afterwards. The important thing was to have the books, not actually read them.
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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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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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Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.
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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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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
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I don’t read the news. I make the news.
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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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You read a lot. - Safer than going on a real adventure
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I'm not well read.
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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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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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To gain more from your time in the Scripture, you should read and reread the passage. You must know what the passage says before you can understand what it means and how it applies to you and your ministry. You should: Read to determine, “What does this passage say to me?” Begin by reading the passage to determine what the Scripture is all about. Record what you see. It is extremely important that you write some notes and keep a record of your insights and questions. Mark unfamiliar words or phrases that you do not understand; and write your answers in your journal or study notes.
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I came across the script 42, and I read it, and I said, "I really want to do this." And when I had my agent call, they said, ah, you know, it's not what they're looking for. So, OK. And then I let it go for a while, and then it just kept gnawing at me, so I kept pushing.
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History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.
