You Read Quotes

667 You Read quotes by 526 unique authors

Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living. — Janette Rallison
Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is… — John Green
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be… — John Green
When you're young - when I was young - you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want… — Julian Barnes
Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you read about in… — Ruta Sepetys
William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time of your life--live!"… — Tennessee Williams
That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own. — Janette Rallison
Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment… — Helen Humphreys
Who knew three dots could make such a difference? Like everything else, a love or a wish or whatever, it was all in the way… — Sarah Dessen
libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's… — Umberto Eco
Now, the world is more than it seems to be. You know this, of course, because you read stories. You understand that there is the… — Anne Ursu
If you want to talk to God, pray. If you want him to talk to you, read your scriptures. — Richard G. Scott
That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made--you read a book, you meet a person, you have a single experience, and… — Howard Zinn
If you read, you'll judge. — Kurt Cobain
Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov,… — Edward Albee
The more you read, the more things you will know. — Dr. Seuss
If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total… — Lewis Buzbee
I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read. — William Trevor
You read too much and understand too little. — Robert Jordan
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch… — Beryl Markham
And spare me the jokes about scoring." "Dammit, woman, you read my mind," he said. "Is there no filthy wordplay you can't forsee?" "It's my… — Cassandra Clare
I'm a man of few words." "If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary. — Bill Watterson
That's what I love about writing. Once you get the words down on paper, in print, they start to make sense. It's like you don't… — Ellen Wittlinger
It's like when you read a book and you know that the words are important, but the images blossoming in your imagination are even more… — Jack Gantos
The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering and… — Elwyn Brooks White

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