Read Quotes
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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 doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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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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Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.
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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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People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
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You read a lot. - Safer than going on a real adventure
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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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We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.
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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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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 only read a book if I feel intuitively led to read it.
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Scared to read my paper, can't look at TV.
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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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Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.
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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. :)
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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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I don’t read the news. I make the news.
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The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.
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History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.
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Read, read, read. That's all I can say.
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I always believe leaders are readers, so you've got to read 30 minutes a day of something that's going to inspire you.
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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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Read to live, not live to read.
