Quotes of: Started-reading Keyword

Whenever you're adapting something that's a 12- or 14-hour read down to something that has to be around two hours, there's going to be some cuts.

Francis Lawrence

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

Francois Mauriac

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

Flannery O'Connor

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

Francis Quarles

I want to know why I read as a child with such a frantic appetite, why I sucked the words off the page with such an edge of desperation.

Francis Spufford

I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.

Gabriel Byrne

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

G.K. Chesterton

If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.

Giacomo Casanova

I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.

Geena Davis

There isn't a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as 'Pride and Prejudice' which I often re-read.

Carolina Herrera

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Five years from today, you will be the same person that you are today, except for the books you read and the people you meet.

Charlie Jones

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

China Mieville

You cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11.

Colum McCann

Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world around you.

Caterina Scorsone

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

Charles de Secondat

Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings. How diligently they read them! Here they find their law and profits, their judges and chronicles, their epistles and revelations.

Charles H. Spurgeon

taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.

Carl Sagan

Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.

Henry Petroski

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Harold Rosenberg

It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.

Henry Rollins