We Read Quotes

275 We Read quotes by 226 unique authors

People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we… — Dan Chaon
I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read a novel, we… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that… — Adrienne Clarkson
Do codons overlap? In other words, as we read along the genetic message do we find a base which is a member of two or… — Francis Crick
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling… — Tayari Jones
I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the… — John McGahern
Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we… — Jonathan Gottschall
When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar. — Saint Augustine
For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions. — James Russell Lowell
At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper… — Mark Z. Danielewski
All of the insights that we might ever need have already been captured by others in books. The important question is this: In the last… — Jim Rohn
When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word. — Hannah More
Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with an equal attention… — Ernest Dimnet
The books we read change over the years as new books come out and they change over the grades. Books we are reading in fifth… — Brian J. White
Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our own judgment and reason, listening… — Luther Burbank
Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . .… — Luther Burbank
What makes a difference is when we take our mind and put it into the scriptures, when we read the Buddhist Canon, the Pali Canon,… — Frederick Lenz
We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our life stories… — Maureen Corrigan
IN PERSIA I SAW that poetry is meant to be set to music & chanted or sung--for one reason alone--because it works.A right combination of… — Hakim
We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters. — James Anthony Froude
It often astonishes me that I did not see the importance of meditation upon Scripture earlier in my Christian life. As the outward man is… — George Muller
It seems hard for the American people to believe that anything could be more exciting than the times themselves. What we read daily and view… — Saul Bellow
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only. — Lev Grossman
I love 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' That was like the only black book we read in high school. — Junot Diaz
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the… — Tryon Edwards

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