I Read Quotes

1362 I Read quotes by 1094 unique authors

I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces… — Aleksandar Hemon
I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy… — Judy Holliday
I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure. — Khaled Hosseini
I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had… — Khaled Hosseini
I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to… — James Earl Jones
I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought. — Janis Joplin
When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my… — Alan King
I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along. — Charles Kuralt
I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction. — Anne Lamott
All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James. — Donna Leon
I think I remember from the offset I said, 'I've visited this territory. This isn't for me.' And then I read the script and I… — Jared Leto
I think at times I read too much of my own press. I wish I was better at taking in how great my life is,… — Seth MacFarlane
I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting. — Harold MacMillan
I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound… — George R. R. Martin
I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate… — Groucho Marx
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only… — W. Somerset Maugham
When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love… — Joyce Maynard
There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try… — Matthew McConaughey
I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12. — Alexander McQueen
I read poetry to save time. — Marilyn Monroe
A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the… — Dylan Moran
As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks. — Viggo Mortensen
I decided to give acting a serious, committed try, and soon after, I read the script for 'Lovely and Amazing.' The story was beautiful and… — Emily Mortimer
If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life… — Walter Dean Myers

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