Read Quotes

9540 Read quotes by 5006 unique authors

We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read… — Rick Riordan
American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it. — Gary Shteyngart
You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and… — Gary Shteyngart
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it. — Gary Shteyngart
I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry.… — Gary Shteyngart
In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it. — Matthew Scully
I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a… — Michel Houellebecq
I love my lecture tours. I get up onstage. I have my stack of books and a glass of water and a microphone. No podium,… — Suzan-Lori Parks
I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry. — Suzan-Lori Parks
Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph to see what… — W. P. Kinsella
I read French much better than I speak. — Cara Black
If I had one piece of advice for people - if they are cooking from the Alinea cookbook, the Betty Crocker cookbook or the back… — Grant Achatz
There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels. — John Burdett
Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing… — Zadie Smith
All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when… — Ernest Hemingway
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's… — Will Rogers
Writers don't write, they read and transcribe. — William S. Burroughs
If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and… — Robertson Davies
But this is an imperfect world, as actors, athletes, priests and presidents soon discover. Writers have known this from the day they read their first… — Thomas Fleming
If everything else fails, read the instructions — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for… — George F Will
Each prayer is more beautiful than the others. I cannot recite them all and not knowing which to choose, I do like children who do… — Therese Of Lisieux
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it.… — Abraham Lincoln
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels… — Cesar Chavez
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of… — Thomas Carlyle

Who Wrote These Read Quotes

5,006 authors contributed a total of 9,540 Read Quotes, led by these top contributors: