Best People Read Sayings

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When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs. — Georgia O'Keeffe
I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave-- The world goes round forever; I think that life is not too… — Winthrop Mackworth Praed
I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in… — David Hare
That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clearly books that are purely commercial and purely literary, written… — Justin Cronin
In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines,… — Caroline Kennedy
I'm gonna be unemployed when people read this. Ha. — Marlee Matlin
On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent… — David Ogilvy
When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms.… — Salman Rushdie
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water,… — Wallace Stevens
Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on… — Herbert Bayard Swope
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd… — Voltaire
I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts! — Jasper Fforde
[D]on't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your… — Neil Gaiman
A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined. — James A. Michener
I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind of… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Some people read books for fun. — Richelle Mead
The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life — Meher Baba
It's not like most people read anymore. Well, not unless the book has a wizard school or a hot vampire. And, as a Kari Kngsley… — Janette Rallison
I don't really care how people read. I care if people read. — John Green
I thought to myself, 'why not write a bestseller?' In the first place, more people buy them and more people read them. You make more… — George Burns
What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card contained the map… — Alice Hoffman
The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too. — Neil Gaiman
I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now. — Robert Graves
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life. — Barbara Kingsolver
When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor… — Roberto Bolano

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