Noodles: [to Deborah] There were two things I couldn't get out of my mind. One was Dominic, the way he said, "I slipped," just before he died. The other was you. How you used to read me your Song of Songs, remember? "How beautiful are your feet / In ...
Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.
Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.
I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading.
I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.
Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.
Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.
It is no secret that I have read 'The Da Vinci Code' several times. I genuinely believe that 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels And Demons' are, by far, Brown's best works.
Once I finished reading a good book, it gives me a hard time coping up with reality.
I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.
A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable.
The bohemian life that reigned in Paris until the end of the '50s is gone. The artists had more time to think, to reflect; success didn't come so suddenly.
I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read about his time as a steamboat pilot.
I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.
You are reading me; over the boundary of time and distance, I am touching you, not with my hands but with my love.
Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.
Reading is a time machine that allows you to acquire wisdom from the past and to analyze and imagine another person’s vision of the future.
