Ifs Quote by Joan Didion

I myself love to read those Victorian novels which go on and on, and you don't read them in one sitting. You might read…

— Joan Didion

I seem to be drawn to these smaller forms, and I seem to be drawn to things that can be written and also read…

— Jenny Zhang

I sat on the bench by the willows and at my honey bun and read Triton. There are some awful things in the world,…

— Jo Walton

I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to read, but…

— Anonymous

As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was…

— Joan Didion

“Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, i was reminded of something - an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Siobhan also says that if you close your mouth and breathe out loudly through your nose it can mean that you are relaxed, or…

— Mark Haddon

The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding its convention?…

— James Fallows

My night stand is permanently jammed with books I want to read.

— Tana French

I won't complain, but I don't want to just be doing action films and extended character transformations, you know? I want to explore, and…

— Sofia Boutella

That's what people expect: They don't want to read a slight novel. People don't want to waste their time on anything less than 'great.'

— Jenny Zhang

Why would I want to read something about somebody that's just a really nice, decent person who overcomes terrible trials? That's not how life…

— Tama Janowitz