Reads Quotes

442 Reads quotes by 370 unique authors

If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing. — Paul de Man
The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be exciting,… — Ray Bradbury
The man who never reads lives only one. — George R. R. Martin
An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table. — Walter Jon Williams
If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "No fishing." — Corrie Ten Boom
To be entirely safe from the devil's snares the man of God must be completely obedient to the Word of the Lord. The driver on… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Everyone wears an invisible sign that reads "Notice me. Make me feel important." — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant to derisive. It’s… — Gabrielle Hamilton
For the Humanist, . . . head and heart . . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the Phillips Exeter Academy… — Corliss Lamont
As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely… — Oscar Wilde
When are we left-wingers going to learn that we are losing the cultural and political battle with conservatives because we are fractured into narcissistic special-interest… — Sherman Alexie
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her.… — Irving Penn
I am saying pornography hurts anyone who reads it -- garbage in, garbage out. — Jerry Falwell
The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it. A… — Harlan Coben
I haven't got any fan mail from Osama bin Laden. I have no reason to believe he reads my stuff I'll never decide for commercial… — Tom Clancy
You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history — Iain Banks
Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader… — Marcel Proust
All I've ever really done is page 3 in The Sun, and not every man reads that. — Katie Price
My friend Ian Hagemann, a regular at Wiscon, once said on a panel that when he reads science fiction futures that are full of white… — Nalo Hopkinson
Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling history can. Abbott brings to… — Megan Abbott
Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one book in his… — Elwyn Brooks White
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret,… — Maurice Blanchot
Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know it disappears. Then… — William O. Douglas
A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may have noted each… — Auguste Rodin

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