Read Quotes

9540 quotes by 5248 authors

When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So… — Paul Auster
I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it… — Paul Auster
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one… — Isaac Asimov
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that… — Isaac Asimov
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. — Chinua Achebe
I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth. — Margaret Atwood
I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking… — Margaret Atwood
If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your… — Margaret Atwood
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. — Saint Augustine
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto… — Saint Augustine
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father… — Paul Auster
Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's… — Kevin Bacon
I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though. — Kevin Bacon
It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist… — Lester Bangs
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. — Tallulah Bankhead

Who Wrote These Read Quotes

5,248 authors contributed a total of 9,540 Read Quotes, led by these top contributors: