You Read Quotes
667 You Read quotes by 526 unique authors
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Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?
— John Fante
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When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different…
— Julian Barnes
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
— James A. Baldwin
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You can't believe everything you read.
— Daniel Handler
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When I write to you, I feel your breath; when you read them, I imagine you feel mine. Is it that way with you too?…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Tegus, I'm leaving this book behind for you, so you will know the why of it all, and maybe you'll forgive me, or maybe you'll…
— Shannon Hale
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YOU WILL ALWAYS BE THE ONLY ONE FOR ME ' -- I always want to be with you more than with anyone else. I always…
— Susan Polis Schutz
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I’ve always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%. There’s no way…
— Shannon Hale
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I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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May I ask you something?" I say. "Why do you read books, when you could be outside, living a million different adventures every day?" "Because…
— Jodi Picoult
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Life is like a book son. And every book has an end. No matter how much you like that book you will get to the…
— Fábio Moon
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You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this…
— David Morrell
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The Bible has been through at least half a dozen translations by the time you read it. Plus, when the word of God is infected…
— Craig Ferguson
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My name is Daniel, and this is the first volume of my life story, which, hopefully, will be a very long and distinguished one. Who…
— James Patterson
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I believe ability can get you to the top,” says coach John Wooden, “but it takes character to keep you there.… It’s so easy to…
— Carol S. Dweck
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One of the stall doors swings open and a fortyish-year-old woman walks out tucking her shirt into her jeans. Her heavy lined eyes land on…
— Jessica Sorensen
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How about Proust's In Search of Lost Time?" Tamaru asked. "If you've never read it this would be a good opportunity to read the whole…
— Haruki Murakami
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You don't just have people who wake up in the morning and say, "What evil things can I do today, because I'm Mr. Evil?" People…
— George R. R. Martin
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What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience. When you read a book, the story definitely…
— Robin Sloan
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Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your…
— Charles Spurgeon
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How can you not understand?" He pointed at her books. "You read novels. Obviously, I'm here to rescue you. Don't I look like Sir Galahad?"…
— Cassandra Clare
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I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and as you read…
— Mary Oliver
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All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.
— Daniel Handler
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When you read my texts, you saw a curt, miserable git. And you told me so. Maybe you're right. But you know what I saw…
— Sophie Kinsella
Who Wrote These You Read Quotes
526 authors contributed a total of 667 You Read Quotes, led by these top contributors: