Read Quotes
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She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her to. Instead she practiced the art of bibliomancy, trusting the book to show her what it wanted her to know.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I've had that conversation! "You had a minute! Why didn't you do that?" So if husbands could read our minds that would be great.
Mila Kunis
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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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If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.
Thomas Hobbes
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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.
Stephen King
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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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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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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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You can read about yourself but what's important is how you feel about yourself.
Marilyn Monroe
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Read to live, not live to read.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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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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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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Read, read, read. That's all I can say.
Carolyn Keene
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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.
Steven Spielberg
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Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.
Isaac Rosenberg
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I will ask of you only the ability to read English and to think logically—no high school mathematics, and certainly no higher mathematics.
Edmund Landau
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We are meaning-making creatures who read other people’s subtle clues just as they read ours.
Edwin Catmull
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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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I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
William Faulkner
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I read a lot of scripts, so I know by page 25 if I like it or not.
Ben Cross
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I think Bellow's the greatest American writer of his century, personally. When I read him, I'm in awe.
Ethan Canin
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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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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