Quotes of: Readings Keyword

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

E. L. Doctorow

I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'

Helen Vendler

'In Cold Blood' is not a thriller at all, really. It is, however, the first work of its kind: a true crime book that reads like fiction.

Lisa Unger

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

Walter Jon Williams

The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.

Hannah Cowley

I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.

Jessica Brown Findlay

'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

Jessye Norman

I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.

The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro

Writing a book is just reading one, except you get to choose the perfect ending everytime!

Chained and Dominated

The worst book imaginable has a redeeming quality if it gets a young person to read.

The Character

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts.

Collected Poems

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

The Conduct of Life: A Philosophical Reading

If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.

The Dark River

Read. You can always talk with another reader.

Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior

Read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair.

The Ersatz Elevator

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

I just want to stay away from people and read books.

The Fault in Our Stars

If you are too busy to read, you are too busy.

Freedom of Simplicity: Finding Harmony in a Complex World

I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?

A Great and Terrible Beauty

If you don't read the Holy Bible, you don't stand a chance with the antichrist.

God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible

One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.

The Glass Castle