Quotes of: Readings Keyword

Humbert Humbert: [to Charlotte Haze] We don't read other people's diaries now, do we?

Lolita

Max Bialystock: [reading post-show telegrams] "Congratulations! Hitler will run forever."

The Producers

Owen: It's called delegation, baby. I read about it in a book about it.

The Way Way Back

Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine.

Bernard Cornwell

I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution.

Richard J. Codey

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

Virginia Woolf

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

Chang-Rae Lee

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Emily Dickinson

I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.

Gary Shteyngart

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

Randall Jarrell

I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.

Henry Hopper

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Arthur C. Clarke

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

Iain Banks

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

Samuel Butler

As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

Cao Yu

The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.

Daniel Pennac

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

Mark Ruffalo

I love to read about healthy eating and preach to my husband, who doesn't listen. Now I'm trying to teach it to my daughters.

Martina McBride

I belong on the stage. I love how the day's events, whatever you read in the newspapers or watch on the TV, are reflected in the performance and how it's received.

Mandy Patinkin

I love turning on the computer in the morning and reading the things that I did the day before - that I didn't do!

Peyton Reed