Quotes of: Read Keyword

Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.

Keith Miller

Like a forgotten old photograph, this dream will stay pressed, between the pages of a book you don’t feel like reading anymore.

Khadija Rupa

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

Karen Thompson Walker

I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.

Kevin Wilson

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

Lynn Abbey

When I have money, I invest in buying books. My personal development by reading these books is my greatest pleasure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie.

LeVar Burton

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

Louise Brown

No matter how many books you own, you can never own enough. Reading books is the best addiction anyone can have.

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I quickly learned, however, that a university education is not a prerequisite to reading Shakespeare. After all, his original audience was not college-educated. Neither was he.

Laura Bates

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.

Leslie Fiedler

Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.

Leslie Fiedler

My research process doesn't vary much. I do a little reading to establish a timeline and decide how I'm going to approach the story.

Laurie Graham

My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.

Lev Grossman

I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.

Lisa Gardner

If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I read as many scripts as I can and just find stuff that I think is interesting, find stories that I think are worth telling.

Liam Hemsworth

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

Langston Hughes

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

Lois Lowry

Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is a prescription for disaster for the young.

Lois Lowry