You Read Quotes

667 You Read quotes by 526 unique authors

I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than… — Jeanette Winterson
As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite… — Ursula K. Le Guin
What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only… — Margaret Atwood
great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me… — Charles Bukowski
You will be transformed by what you read. — Deepak Chopra
For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part… — Bell Hooks
One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a physical and spiritual… — Jack Kerouac
A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it. — David Mitchell
It was amazing to me then, and still is, that so many people who wander into bookshops don't really know what they're after--they only want… — Mary Ann Shaffer
It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the… — Charles Bukowski
With wine and being lost, with less and less of both: I rode through the snow, do you read me I rode God far--I rode… — Paul Celan
Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies. — Kathy Acker
Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside… — Jeanette Winterson
I am grateful for emphasis on reading the scriptures. I hope that for you this will become something far more enjoyable than a duty; that,… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes… — Neil Gaiman
As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that things truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Did you read the part that says, 'Your hair is like a flock of goats'? How romantic is that? Or that other line, 'Your neck… — Robin Jones Gunn
Enjoy yourself whilst you read! — Jacqueline Wilson
Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near… — Markus Zusak
Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in there jackets, lines of neat print on… — David Almond
When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied… — Paula Fox
Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you… — Barbara Kingsolver
It’s obvious you kids are smart-school and good teachers will do that for you-but wisdom is something altogether different. Wisdom can be gathered in your… — Andy Andrews
Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness. — A A Milne
No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world that I am… — William Shakespeare

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