Read Quotes · Page 20

I started writing books because I couldn't find the books I wanted to read on the shelf.

— Kameron Hurley

I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'

— Andre Holland

“You read my words and instantly we are both connected”

— Richard L. Ratliff

Reading is an exercise for learning how to write and vice versa. I have read myself into being a Christian, but I…

— Stanley Hauerwas

I write about the men you want to read about but don't necessarily want to be married to.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.

— John Carpenter

When I was in school I read a lot of comic books and pretend I was in them and kids would tease…

— Freddie Prinze, Jr

If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I…

— Andrew Motion

I don't read my DMs often because it breaks my brain.

— Gracie Abrams

I read blogs quite a bit.

— Satoru Iwata

I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.

— Randy Alcorn

I've read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, 'Boy I could shine here,…

— Matthew McConaughey

I prefer non-fiction to fiction. In fact, I don't read fiction at all. I read books that are based on true events.

— Diana Penty

“Curiosity is the beginning of all creativity.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It was the first grown-up…

— Glen Duncan

I don't read the papers. I don't want to read what the press says.

— Marc Gasol

They sent me the script, and I was dubious at first. I said, 'Lost in Space? They're reviving that? They tried to…

— Toby Stephens

'Rebecca' by Daphne du Maurier was the first grown-up book I read, when I was aged about 12.

— Mary Nightingale

“We encounter great souls by reading great books.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

With film, you read the whole script three or four times, and you really have a solid blueprint of who your character…

— Graham Phillips

As an actor, my job is to go to the set, read my scene and perform to the best of my abilities.

— Jasmin Bhasin

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

— Robert Walpole

When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn learning itself - by years.

— Anonymous

I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse.…

— Helen Vendler

I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I…

— Chris Abani