I Read Quotes

1362 I Read quotes by 1094 unique authors

In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the… — Marcel Proust
Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an… — Orhan Pamuk
I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all… — Annie Dillard
I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it.… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen — Rita Rudner
Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, conveying… — Patrick O'Brian
I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste. — Voltaire
When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? — Nora Ephron
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they… — Jorge Luis Borges
I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's… — Nora Roberts
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language. — D. H. Lawrence
Afterward, Isabel drove me home and I shut myself in the study with Rilke, and I read and I wanted. And leaving you (there arent… — Maggie Stiefvater
Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ...He could have a psychotic break. I read that people… — Maggie Stiefvater
With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do. — Steven Morrissey
It's the first line in your book. I always thought there was a lot of truth in that. Or maybe that's what my English teacher… — Nicholas Sparks
Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Moon In the Window I wish I could say I was the kind of child who watched the moon from her window, would turn toward… — Dorianne Laux
Growing up, I was utterly oblivious to the fact that Mom was teaching me all that. But I was instantly aware of her final lesson,… — Ruth Reichl
Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she would fall in love with me again,… — Nicholas Sparks
I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the… — Stephen King
And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident… — Vincent Van Gogh
A being who, as I grew older, lost imagination, emotion, a type of intelligence, a way of feeling things - all that which, while it… — Fernando Pessoa
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed. — Orhan Pamuk
Wet towel under the door,' said Barry. 'It's what you do when you're smoking weed in a hotel and you don't want everyone calling security.… — Christopher Moore

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