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title: "18 Thought Read Quotes by 17 authors"
description: "Browse 18 Thought Read quotes by 17 authors. Discover the best Thought Read sayings and thoughts."
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> [Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don't join fashionable 'schools of thought.' Read everything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/make-sure-the-lubricant-is-unscented-don-t-join-fashionable-schools/)

[Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/)

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> [“Ah, he thought, for one who cannot read--or think--the Image, the physical form of Love!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/ah-he-thought-for-one-who-cannot-read-or-think-the-image-the-physical/)

[Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/)

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> [Who knows if Shakespeare might not have thought less if he had read more?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-young/who-knows-if-shakespeare-might-not-have-thought-less-if-he-had-read/)

[Edward Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-young/)

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> [A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dick-cavett/a-biggest-mistake-i-made-when-i-started-doing-a-talk-show-was-i/)

[Dick Cavett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dick-cavett/)

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> [That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-caleb-colton/that-author-however-who-has-thought-more-than-he-has-read-read-more/)

[Charles Caleb Colton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-caleb-colton/)

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> [Deep reading refers to a whole continuum of processes that include some of the most important things about thinking and how we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maryanne-wolf/deep-reading-refers-to-a-whole-continuum-of-processes-that-include/)

[Maryanne Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maryanne-wolf/)

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> [My books are better thought about than read. They're insanely dull and unreadable.But they're wonderful to talk about and think about, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-goldsmith/my-books-are-better-thought-about-than-read-they-re-insanely-dull-and/)

[Kenneth Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-goldsmith/)

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> [“One glance he gave, one little smile at parting—it was but for a moment; but therein I read, or thought I read,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-bronte/one-glance-he-gave-one-little-smile-at-parting-it-was-but-for-a/)

[Anne Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-bronte/)

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> [My work on what is called 'deep reading' explores the range of linguistic, cognitive, and affective processes that underlie not only the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maryanne-wolf/my-work-on-what-is-called-deep-reading-explores-the-range-of/)

[Maryanne Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maryanne-wolf/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24e/maryanne-wolf-10802_critical-analysis_my-work-on-what-is-called-deep-reading-e_1354536.jpg)

> [“What is reading, in the last analysis, but an interchange of thought between writer and reader? If the book enters the reader's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/what-is-reading-in-the-last-analysis-but-an-interchange-of-thought/)

[Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/)

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> [“I'm certain indeed, I think there's no doubt of it - that reading does young people much harm. It puts things into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/miss-grizzy/i-m-certain-indeed-i-think-there-s-no-doubt-of-it-that-reading-does/)

[Miss Grizzy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/miss-grizzy/)

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> [Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-pearl/reading-has-always-brought-me-pure-joy-i-read-to-encounter-new-worlds/)

[Nancy Pearl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-pearl/)

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> [ One writes such a story \[The Lord of the Rings\] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-r-r-tolkien-2/one-writes-such-a-story-the-lord-of-the-rings-not-out-of-the-leaves/)

[J. R. R. Tolkien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-r-r-tolkien-2/)

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> [“There’s a poem by Adrienne Rich I first read twenty years ago called “Splittings” that I thought of when I read your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cheryl-strayed/there-s-a-poem-by-adrienne-rich-i-first-read-twenty-years-ago-called/)

[Cheryl Strayed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cheryl-strayed/)

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> [The best books, they don’t talk about things you never thought about before. They talk about things you’d always thought about, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tommy-wallach/the-best-books-they-don-t-talk-about-things-you-never-thought-about/)

[Tommy Wallach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tommy-wallach/)

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> [“… it would even be inexact to say that I thought of those who read it as readers of my book. Because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/it-would-even-be-inexact-to-say-that-i-thought-of-those-who-read-it/)

[Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/)

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> [“It has ever been my lot, though formally myself a teacher, to be taught surely by none. There are times when I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/loren-eiseley/it-has-ever-been-my-lot-though-formally-myself-a-teacher-to-be-taught/)

[Loren Eiseley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/loren-eiseley/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bc/loren-eiseley-3848_books_it-has-ever-been-my-lot-though-formally_2931364.png)

> [“The constant steaming in of thoughts of others must suppress and confine our own and indeed in the long run paralyze the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-durant/the-constant-steaming-in-of-thoughts-of-others-must-suppress-and/)

[Will Durant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-durant/)

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                        "text": "One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of botany and soil-science; but it grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mold of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps. No doubt there is much personal selection, as with a gardener: what one throws on one's personal compost-heap; and my mold is evidently made largely of linguistic matter.",
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                        "text": "“There’s a poem by Adrienne Rich I first read twenty years ago called “Splittings” that I thought of when I read your letter. The last two lines of the poem are: “I choose to love this time for once / with all my intelligence.” It seemed such a radical thought when I first read those lines when I was twenty-two—that love could rise from our deepest, most reasoned intentions rather than our strongest shadowy doubts.”",
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                        "text": "The best books, they don’t talk about things you never thought about before. They talk about things you’d always thought about, but you didn’t think anyone else had thought about. You read them, and suddenly you’re a little bit less alone in the world. You’re part of this cosmic community of people who’ve thought about this thing, whatever it happens to be.",
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                        "text": "“… it would even be inexact to say that I thought of those who read it as readers of my book. Because they were not, as I saw it, my readers. More exactly they were readers of themselves, my book being a sort of magnifying glass … by which I could give them the means to read within themselves.”",
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