They Read Quotes

113 They Read quotes by 100 unique authors

People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction. — Will Self
My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that… — Arabella Weir
People respect nonfiction but they read novels. — E. O. Wilson
Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically when they read ... Their chance was to make everything fine and finished and rich and imaginative;… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what theyâ€™re really doing is reading to find reason for… — Terry Goodkind
For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which… — W. Somerset Maugham
Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read. — Alberto Manguel
Of his new book, Don says: â€œIt might be the greatest book ever written. I donâ€™t think anybody is going to read a book again… — Donald Miller
In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have been astonished by… — Natalie Goldberg
Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a… — Susanna Clarke
Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isnâ€™t that the… — Gustave Flaubert
The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read. — Mortimer Adler
I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it when people apologize for what… — Jennifer Donnelly
But the cinephile is â€¦ a neurotic! (Thatâ€™s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and itâ€™s because they were neurotic that they… — Francois Truffaut
Is it not true that no two human beings understand anything whatsoever about each other, that those who consider themselves bosom friends may be utterly… — Osamu Dazai
Itâ€™s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the… — Saint Augustine
Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings. How diligently they read them! Here they find their law and profits, their judges and chronicles, their epistles and… — Charles Spurgeon
You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read... — Keri Hulme
Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricksâ€¦ — Thomas Hardy

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