Quotes of: Started-reading Keyword

A 15-minute gap in your day is plenty of time to write and read, but not if you check your email first.

Life

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

Vanessa Brown

I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

V. S. Naipaul

You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.

V. S. Naipaul

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

V. S. Naipaul

I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.

Vikram Seth

I am reading Henry James… and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

Virginia Woolf

I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.

Wentworth Miller

The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.

William Shenstone

As a 14-year-old with anxiety, to have read about that in a book would have helped me so much.

Zoe Sugg

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

Goodbyes are sad, but they are temporary, because as hellos ends with goodbyes, so will goodbyes start with hellos.

Dominion

This is a classic story of the friendship between humans and cats. Yes. I got in a lie right from the start!

Fairy Tail, Vol. 01

Simplicity starts in the heart, away from negativity and pessimism.

Flashes of Thought

I should probably start with the blood.

The Book of Blood and Shadow