Reads Quotes

442 Reads quotes by 370 unique authors

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer? — Jennifer Weiner
The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the… — Mark Twain
My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what the Lord wants… — Ezra Taft Benson
What I bring to the interview is respect. The person recognizes that you respect them because you're listening. Because you're listening, they feel good about… — Studs Terkel
Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the… — Gustave Flaubert
Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not… — Charles Spurgeon
If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads. — Sherman Alexie
Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists. — John Updike
I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been… — C.S. Lewis
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its… — Henry Ward Beecher
[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he… — Mark Helprin
Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock
If there is an amateur reader still left in the world—or anybody who just reads and runs—I ask him or her, with untellable affection and… — J D Salinger
What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears. — Oswald Spengler
Dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might have been, an America fervently devoted to the quaint goals… — Sarah Vowell
Oh, here's a clever one. Do you remember this question from the first test?It reads, 'What wrong with this statement?' And do you know what… — Trenton Lee Stewart
So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads. — Dr. Seuss
It reads better than it lives — Ian Fleming
It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the… — Thomas Brooks
What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully. — Paul Valery
There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there… — Eoin Colfer
A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once. "A businessman has… — Walter Mosley
Anyway, who lives a rich and beautiful life that I know? It's no longer possible, surely, for anyone who works for a living, or lives… — Nick Hornby
Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't… — Kim Addonizio

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