Reads Quotes

442 Reads quotes by 370 unique authors

I once read somewhere that Sean Connery left school at the age of 13 and later went on to read Proust and Finnegans Wake and… — Helen DeWitt
There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully. — N.K. Jemisin
Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up… — John Stuart Mill
Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - that’s kind of a gift to the author.… — Po Bronson
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final… — Frank O'Hara
A man is known by the books he reads. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are… — Samuel Johnson
Doughboy," I said. "What is this scroll?" "A spell lost in time!" he pronounced. "Ancient words of tremendous power!" "Well?" I demanded. "Does it tell… — Rick Riordan
Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil — Eminem
What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like… — Jeanette Winterson
Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and,… — Margaret Mahy
She reaches in, digs her hand deep into the ball, and pulls out a slip of paper. The crowd draws in a collective breath, and… — Suzanne Collins
It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head. So the writer who… — Dr. Seuss
The person who reads can bail, but the person who doesn't fails. — Gary Paulsen
I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced. — Lawrence Durrell
All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible… — David Baldacci
In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for? — John Irving
The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that… — C.S. Lewis
Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words… — Paul Auster
Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why are they angry?… — Malcolm Gladwell
He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony;… — William Shakespeare
Nobody reads a book to get to the middle. — Mickey Spillane
We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful. — Oscar Wilde
This evening I begin a notebook. If anyone reads this, I trust they will forgive my overuse of "I". I can't stop it. I'm writing… — Jonathan Franzen

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