Read Them Quotes
226 quotes by 198 authors
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I was a reader. I loved reading. Reading things gave me pleasure. I was very good at most subjects in school, not because I had…
— Neil Gaiman
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But I like all the books. You've got to read them all to get the complete Harry Potter experience.
— Rupert Grint
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A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important…
— Calista Flockhart
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The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and…
— Ray Bradbury
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Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to…
— Rachel Kushner
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I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to…
— Kenneth Koch
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Am I a technocrat? Im just a guy who went down to the bookstore and bought a couple of textbooks on TCP/IP, which is the…
— Neal Stephenson
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I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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I'm no prophet, but I'm guessing that comic books will always be strong. I don't think anything can really beat the pure fun and pleasure…
— Stan Lee
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You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them aside in disgust…
— Michael Swanwick
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I don't open the newspapers (to see what's written about me). I don't read them and you can see them hanging at the stand outside…
— Sachin Tendulkar
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Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.
— Craig Charles
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Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise dark…
— Edward Hirsch
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You have to listen to your own voice. Not your heart, not your instincts, not any of that self-permissive psycho-babble stuff. No, none of that.…
— Fleur Adcock
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Alphabet Juice is the book Roy Blount was born to write, which considering his prodigious talent, is saying a lot. Did you know that the…
— Cathleen Schine
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Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like a silent bird of prey on…
— Marlene Dietrich
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We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
— William Faulkner
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Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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