Read Like Quotes

36 quotes by 32 authors

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in… — Russell Baker
The truth is that every book we read, like every person we meet, has the capacity to change our lives. And though we can be… — Susan Cooper
I read like the flame reads the wood. — Alfred Doblin
My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention. Even though my work is appearing in magazines I am trying… — David LaChapelle
The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that it… — Terry Eagleton
People don't see this side of me. They don't know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a… — Jenny McCarthy
Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like tornado alerts in… — Mary Blakely
His achievements read like the graffiti on the walls of a hangman's changing room. — Jonathan Larson
As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nationâ€™s educational frontiers… — Lewis H. Lapham
Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you read like a… — Frank Smith
I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering… — Judith Guest
I love black dresses. I think everyone should own a lot, but black dresses don't sell online because on the computer they don't read like… — Tom Ford
When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like… — Mohsen Makhmalbaf
The business pages of American newspapers should not read like a scandal sheet. — George W. Bush
Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen. — Lord Byron
Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel is, the less… — Sarah Waters
I've done a show at the Largo Theater called The 'Thrilling Adventure Hour.' We read, like, radio teleplays. It's a send-up of radio dramas from… — Paget Brewster
I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people… — Nicole Krauss
If we want to write, it makes sense to readâ€”and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we would want to… — Francine Prose
By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow. — Brian Ferneyhough

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