Quotes of: Time-reading Keyword

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

Kiran Desai

I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author's work.

Kirsten Prout

Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.

Ezra Stiles

I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.

Floyd Abrams

Many people read History books but it takes just a few people to LEAD the cause that will shape the course of HISTORY.

Fela Durotoye

All must read their so-called 'holy' book - word by word - to determine, by self, its unholy bit.

Fakeer Ishavardas

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