Read Quotes

• I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Book
  • Read
  • Constantly

• There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Trust
  • Writer
  • Read

• Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my favourite lyricists are like Lou Reed, kind of the classics - Bob Dylan and stuff like that.

  

  Andrew VanWyngarden MGMT
  • Write
  • Read
  • Listen

• This Life is More than Just a read through.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Read
  • Life is

• It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera. And to save Fablehaven, I would read a book, okay, are you happy?" You had best be careful, Seth," Grandma warned. "The love of reading can be contagious." I just lost my appetite," he declared.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Love
  • Emergency
  • Soap Operas

• I do get the comics online I guess but it's such a pain. I'd rather just get them in the paper and read them.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Pain
  • Read
  • Comics

• Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, 'Children's Letters to God.' You can open it anywhere. One I read recently said, 'Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Book
  • Laugh
  • Read

• If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it for the reptile from whom it has been fabricated.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Continues
  • Fabricated
  • Rabble

• Write like there is no tomorrow so that others may read about today.

  

  Jen Selinsky
  • Today
  • Write
  • No Tomorrow

• What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Writing
  • Change
  • Challenge

• I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.

  

  John Graham Mellor The 101ers
  • Being
  • Read
  • Antidote

• Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition... and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.

  

  Adam Zagajewski
  • Inspiration
  • Darkness
  • Despair

• How about Proust's In Search of Lost Time?" Tamaru asked. "If you've never read it this would be a good opportunity to read the whole thing." "Have you read it?" "No, I haven't been in jail, or had to hide out for a long time. Someone once said unless you have those kinds of opportunities, you can't read the whole of Proust.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Opportunity
  • Search
  • Jail

• If all our children learn to do is read, they will not be literate.

  

  David Warlick
  • Children
  • Read
  • Illiterate

• It's not an accident that successful people read more books.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Books
  • Read
  • Successful People

• Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Play
  • First
  • Read

• What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Books
  • Information
  • No Reason

• One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Live
  • Learn
  • Read

• In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past, in those days when, as Bonnoure says, the letters wrote themselves one by one, either in their gibbosity or else in their pretentious elegance? In those days, spelling was a drama, our drama of culture at work in the interior of a word.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Past

• I do know one thing: it's best not to read the Internet.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Know
  • Internet
  • Read

• I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole new world in books. If you can’t afford to travel, you travel mentally through reading. You can see anything and go any place you want to in reading.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • World
  • Books
  • Read

• Believe everything you read.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Believe
  • Read

• Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Believe
  • Read
  • Consider

• Read about a few men who wear (or wore) bow ties as an act of defiance, and check out a tie that makes a strong statement. Bow ties are cool.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Read
  • Statement
  • Ties

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