I Read Quotes

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I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn… — Philip Roth
I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than… — Mark Twain
I read some gossip thing saying, because I looked really uncomfortable in a paparazzi photo or something, they're like, 'He should get used to it.… — Robert Pattinson
When I wake up in the morning and I turn that film on, it's like reading a book and it's exciting. I don't read books,… — Les Miles
I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I… — John D. MacDonald
In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount of syllables in… — Fran Lebowitz
At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting — Annie Dillard
Writing keeps me from believing everything I read. — Gloria Steinem
I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always writing-but in my… — Jamaica Kincaid
Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed. — Douglas MacArthur
I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who wrote… — Alan Keyes
I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles. — Glenn Frey
I was not in agreement with the sharp anti-Semitic tone, but from time to time I read arguments which gave me some food for thought.… — Adolf Hitler
Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of… — Henry David Thoreau
There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed… — Eli Broad
I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the blood or see… — Howard Zinn
The books that matter to me...are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself. — Sven Birkerts
I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that what was on… — Ellen DeGeneres
I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading. — Charles Barkley
At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But… — Klaus Kinski

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