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We Read Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
- We read books to find out who we are.
- We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to…
- While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in…
- When we're done with it, we may find—if it's a good novel—that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that…
- In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word…
More We Read Quotes
- A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is… — John Berger
- We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement… — Daniel J. Boorstin
- Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and… — Geraldine Brooks
- We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets… — James Buchan
- What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all… — Thomas Carlyle
- I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read. — Chuck Close
- It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what… — Henry Ward Beecher
- The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that… — C.S. Lewis
- We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is… — Matthew Henry
- We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read. — Abraham Lincoln
- We read to know we are not alone. — C.S. Lewis