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226 Read Them quotes by 193 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them. — William Faulkner
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
In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's… — Delia Smith
I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As… — Lawrence Wright
When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I… — Jack Prelutsky
I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them. — Simon Van Booy
We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them. — Warren Zevon
We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired… — Neil Gaiman
If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come to that book later, or… — Mem Fox
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading… — Beverly Cleary
Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific… — Seth Godin
Search for inspiring quotes and put them on the walls of your bedroom. Read them before you go to bed and the first thing when… — Robert Cheeke

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