Read Quotes · Page 69

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

— Van Wyck Brooks

I can read Gujarati and speak some, too!

— Vikrant Massey

“Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.”

— Joyce Rachelle

I normally read the comments on my video two hours after it's been uploaded.

— Bhuvan Bam

Don't seek to be published, seek to be read.

— Tracy Hickman

I read almost everything that comes my way.

— Ravi Subramanian

I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.

— Francoise Sagan

I collect and read as many books about music and film as I do fiction.

— George Pelecanos

At one school I visited, everyone had read 'Halo,' and they were all dressed up as angels - with halos!

— Alexandra Adornetto

Since my schooldays, I've read the translations of Bengali writers. I'm Punjabi, but I read a lot of Bengali and Urdu literature.

— Gulzar

When I was in Stephen Poliakoff's 'Playing With Trains,' someone wrote that I was 'moon-faced'. That taught me not to read my…

— Lesley Sharp

I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books to be read aloud,…

— Louis L'Amour

I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.

— Dan Abrams

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

— John Keats

I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole other world in books.

— Michael Jackson

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.

— James Gleick

My mom would always read a book to me at night from when I was three. Now, I can't go to sleep…

— Sonam Kapoor

You read about these oyster-shucking contests: Somebody did 100 oysters in three minutes, three seconds. I'm lucky if I can open one…

— Mark Kurlansky

You can't tell your kids to read if you're just watching television. They have to see you read. And in that respect,…

— Gary Ross

Advertisers don't want to put their ads next to the investigative story; it's extremely difficult to do that. And very few people…

— Pierre Omidyar

Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called…

— David McCullough

I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read…

— Thomas Mallon

“Virtues are common, but the virtuous are very few. This is because ordinarily, people know but do not apply what they know.…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of…

— Cathleen Schine

When I read the script for 'War Horse,' I was in absolute tatters.

— Cody Fern

You want to write something as good as what you've read.

— Jodi Picoult

“More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn’t read.”

— Oscar Wilde

Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.

— John Hughes

People enjoy being read to, beginning from when they're little.

— Eva Marie Saint

I would like my novels to be read the way I read the novels I love.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I hardly ever read anything about myself because it's all distractions.

— Chris Sale

I go through these cycles where I read a lot and then watch TV a lot.

— Alex Trebek

I didn't grow up on comics, and I read very few.

— Charlie Cox

The Bible is the book I read. It's got answers for everything.

— Scatman Crothers

I don't buy books, ever... and I only tend to read the sports press.

— Roberto Carlos

I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

— Lisa Unger

When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes.

— Robert Gottlieb

I have just about every book written on the Klan and I've read them all.

— Daryl Davis

If you read people great then you can become a great No Limit Hold 'Em player.

— Phil Hellmuth

I really liked your article. Will read on...

— Serivce