Quotes of: Readings Keyword

Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.

When I Was a Child I Read Books

The only wrong way to read the Bible is to not read it at all.

A Woman's Guide to Making Right Choices

A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.

Why Read the Classics?

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

On Writing

I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.

Margaret Haddix

I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.

Tana French

She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.

Cloud Atlas

I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible.

From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom

I love staring at my books for hours just trying to decide which book to read next. Doing that is almost as fun as actually reading them.

Love The Stacks Bookstore

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

Nicholas Sparks

First step is to read and write but the major Education start when we are able to translate and tranform on everything we reads, get contact and spoken of.

Olawale Robyns

Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'

P. J. O'Rourke

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

Ralph Fiennes

Some people buy books not to read but to dream, the moment 2-3 sentences read and lost in imagination. Take a paper and begin writing.....

sadashivan

At a certain point, you try to avoid reading feedback or blogs because there's always the risk of reading some sort of negative stuff that can be hard to hear.

Sara Ramirez

There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read.

Steve Toltz

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.

Thomas Browne

If I make you read, then I'll keep quiet. If I make you think, then I'll keep reading. If I make you smile, then I'll keep writing.

Thomas Lopinski

I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.

Terry Pratchett

Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury

Jeanette Winterson