Quotes of: Started-reading Keyword

I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

Paulo Coelho

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

Paxton Hood

We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.

Penelope Lively

My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.

Patti Smith

Who says only long tedious novels are good to read when all that can be summed up in one line

Priyansh Shah

I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.

Paul Theroux

If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.

Quentin Blake

My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.

Richard Avedon

I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards.

Roman Abramovich

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

Robert Benchley

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.

Russell Banks

Learning to read music in Braille & play by ear helped me develop a [very] good memory.

Ray Charles

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy.

Robert Gottlieb

When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes.

Robert Gottlieb

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

Rumer Godden

The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them. We need readers. More readers. Fewer writers.

Robert Galbraith

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.

Richard Hughes

We read books. They make us think. It matters very little whether we agree with the books or not.

Robert Henri

I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.

Ricky Jay