Read Quotes
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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.
Kinky Friedman
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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
Cesare Pavese
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I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.
Uzodinma Iweala
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If you're a writer, and you write fiction, that's not all you read.
Esperanza Spalding
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In a place where everyone knew my story, it was nice to know there was a chapter that ONLY I HAD TO READ. :)
Ally Carter
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Why did she talk to me about how soles were ground and not about what she read?
Elena Ferrante
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The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.
Barbara Holland
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I didn't do too much. I came here to The Magic Castle and learned about magic. I read a book, but not his father's book. Sorry about that.
Evan Jones
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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.
William Faulkner
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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.
Bram Stoker
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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.
Sharon Gless
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Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.
George Bernard Shaw
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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.
Echo Bodine
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Read, read, read. That's all I can say.
Carolyn Keene
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My wife read Narc as well and was really into it.
Ray Liotta
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I would stand there and read them. Well, not read them; I would look at them.
Ed McClanahan
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?
Emily Dickinson
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The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.
Juan Enriquez
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Ezra Pound
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Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.
Isaac Rosenberg
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You can read about yourself but what's important is how you feel about yourself.
Marilyn Monroe
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I read Mitch Daniels's book, 'Keeping the Republic,' several times.
Eric Greitens
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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.
Corey Dillon
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We are meaning-making creatures who read other people’s subtle clues just as they read ours.
Edwin Catmull