Best One Reads Quotes

56 One Reads quotes by 48 unique authors

• When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there… — Helen Keller
• One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft,… — Garrison Keillor
• When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once… — James Joyce
• I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read. — John Adams
• If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads. — Sherman Alexie
• There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully. — N.K. Jemisin
• Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it… — Arthur Schopenhauer
• It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final… — Frank O'Hara
• I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced. — Lawrence Durrell
• Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words… — Paul Auster
• Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day. — Daniel Handler
• There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one’s mind and alter one’s whole attitude… — George Orwell
• Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story. — Italo Calvino
• ... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking. — Aldous Huxley
• One reads alone, even in another's presence. — Italo Calvino
• No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets. — Stanislaw Lem
• One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty. — Alan Bennett
• When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although… — Blaise Pascal
• The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it. — Felix Dennis
• No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the absence of 21st-century… — Douglas Coupland
• How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the… — Ian Mcewan
• Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its… — Lorrie Moore
• READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in dialect and… — Ambrose Bierce
• The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false… — George Orwell
• One reads books for knowledge, as one would breath Oxygen to survive! — Andrew Guzaldo

Who Wrote These One Reads Quotes

48 authors contributed a total of 56 One Reads Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 One Reads Quotes by George Orwell
• 2 One Reads Quotes by Sherman Alexie
• 2 One Reads Quotes by Oscar Wilde
• 2 One Reads Quotes by Italo Calvino
• 2 One Reads Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
• 1 One Reads Quote by Youngmarkz
• 1 One Reads Quote by William Thurston
• 1 One Reads Quote by Wayne Teasdale
• 1 One Reads Quote by Voltaire
• 1 One Reads Quote by Virginia Woolf
• 1 One Reads Quote by Vikrant Parsai
• 1 One Reads Quote by Tablo
• 1 One Reads Quote by Stanislaw Lem
• 1 One Reads Quote by Ritu Ghatourey
• 1 One Reads Quote by Paul de Man
• 1 One Reads Quote by Paul Auster
• 1 One Reads Quote by N.K. Jemisin
• 1 One Reads Quote by Mark Twain
• 1 One Reads Quote by Marguerite Yourcenar
• 1 One Reads Quote by Marcel Proust
• 1 One Reads Quote by Louis Sullivan
• 1 One Reads Quote by Lorrie Moore
• 1 One Reads Quote by Lawrence Durrell
• 1 One Reads Quote by John Grisham
• 1 One Reads Quote by John Adams