Quotes of: Read Keyword

Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time.

Simon Mawer

When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.

Madison Pettis

It was huge to read the Proverbs of the day every morning, it was huge to read the Psalm of the day every morning and to get that in us and get us going before the day even started.

Tim Tebow

I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film.

Kevin Wilson

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

Alice James

My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.'

Annalena McAfee

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

Anthony Trollope

I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

Umberto Eco

The more books you read, the less topics you have in common with most of the people, that´s the price you pay for reading.

Life

you can't read Human mind by #Psychology... you can read their mind by talking with them at night..

Life

I don't know what's more tragic, knowing how to read and choosing not to, or not knowing how to read and refusing to learn.

Life

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.

Vivienne Westwood

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

William Lyon Phelps

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.

Will Rogers

With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down and read every word. Because one important thing that can be learned by reading slowly is the seemingly obvious but oddly underappreciat...

Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

I lost the letter in rather embarrassing circumstances. We were to dine at Parramatta Government House that same evening, and Peter had come in early from harvesting the wheat, sitting down in all his dirt to read the precious missive. I sat beside h...

Mary Bennet

Another case for the dumbness of reading, however, is that books do not contain answers, but rather pose more questions. And asking questions makes you look dumber, not smarter. I thought would be a delightful romp through a child's subconscious, but...

How Not to Read: Harnessing the Power of a Literature-Free Life

We can trace the communitarian fantasy that lies at the root of all humanism back to the model of a literary society, in which participation through reading the canon reveals a common love of inspiring messages. At the heart of humanism so understood...

Peter Sloterdijk

Gobber: [Slapping a thick book on the table] The Dragon Manual. Everything we know about every dragon we know of. [Thunder rumbles] Gobber: No attacks tonight. Study up. Tuffnut: Wait, you mean *read*? Ruffnut: While we're still alive? Snotlout: Why ...

How to Train Your Dragon

Hallie: Rance, do you think I could... I mean, grown up and all... do you think I could learn to read? Ransom Stoddard: Why, sure you can, Hallie. Why, there's nothing to it. It'd be... it'd be easy. Can you learn how to read? Why, I can... I can tea...

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

I like to read books one after another. Immerse myself in a book, and then immerse myself in the next book, and just keep going until there aren't any more books left to swim in. That's why I hate when authors die. I cannot stand it. There will be no...

Alison McGhee