You Read Quotes

667 You Read quotes by 526 unique authors

Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why I don't like… — Jack Handey
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover that others have… — James A. Baldwin
Read a lot. But read as a writer, to see how other writers are doing it. And make your knowledge of literature in English as… — Theodora Goss
Believe what you like, but don't believe everything you read without questioning it. — Unknown Author
When you talk to people about the books that have meant a lot to them, it's usually books they read when they were younger because… — Unknown Author
You read, move your lips, figure out the words, and it's like you're in two places at the same time: you're sitting or lying with… — Tatyana Tolstaya
Genealogy of ideas. You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can… — Austin Kleon
You will remember some of what you hear; much of what you read; more of what you see, and almost all of what you experience… — Keith L. Moore
Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world. — Ben Okri
Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy scriptures ever have the pre-eminence, and, next to them, those solid, lively, heavenly… — Richard Baxter
This is not a tough job. You read a script. If you like the part and the money is O.K., you do it. Then you… — Robert Mitchum
You Can't Believe Most of the Quotes You Read On the Internet — Abraham Lincoln
If you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with freedom and vitality and youthfulness… — Christopher McDougall
It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any sense they might… — Ashly Lorenzana
Fundamentals that you read about are typically useless as the market has already discounted the price, and I call them “funny-mentals”. However, if you catch… — Ed Seykota
Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances; occasionally, we smear… — Anthony Lane
What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what gets you out if bed in the mornings,… — Pedro Arrupe
What I do instead is I will cheerfully spend literally hours on identifier names: variable names, method names, and so forth, to make my code… — Joshua Bloch
But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing… — Seth Grahame-Smith
You read best what you read most. — Zuzana Licko
The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you a constantly growing… — Stephen King
That's the thing about a great book. Every time you read it, it's different, because you're different. You've changed since the last time you picked… — Jessica Zafra
If you read the Qur'an with your head, you find repetition. If you read it with your heart, you find depth. — Tariq Ramadan
If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all… — David Mamet
When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think — Tom Schulman

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