Quotes of: Time-reading Keyword

I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get.

Junot Diaz

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

Joe Eszterhas

Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.

John Eldredge

You know, there's a difference between politicians and leaders. Politicians read poll numbers and compromise. Leaders do what's morally right.

Josh Fox

In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.

Juan Goytisolo

You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.

John Hartford

It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview.

John Hawkes

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Jane Hamilton

I don't think people like to read about themselves or about others as they really are. It would be too horrifying.

James Jones

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

Jack Kevorkian

I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover.

Julie Kagawa

My grandmother, who taught me how to cook, didn't know how to read.

Jill Lepore

If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.

Jim Lehrer

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

Jonathan Lethem

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

Jonathan Lethem

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

James Madison

Christopher McCandless: I read somewhere how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong... but to feel strong.

Into the Wild

[Joker reads the newspaper] The Joker: "Winged freak terrorizes"? Wait till they get a load of me!

Batman

I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books to be read aloud, and I think of myself in that oral tradition.

Louis L'Amour

I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world - and I'm lucky to see so much through cycling.

Marianne Vos

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

Charles Olson