Dostoevsky Quote by Will Self

“Dostoevsky does not exist for me. Virginia Woolf does not exist for me. Her essays are quite good, but her novels are not of…

— Javier Marias

We misread the Fifth Amendment [of Constitution] and have been misreading it for the past three decades.

— Joe Biden

Misreading is a big part of reading, the way in which the level of attention you're paying can lead to some interesting residue.

— Brian Evenson

Kant argued that, where nature could be considered beautiful in her acts of destruction, human violence appeared instead as monstrous. However, a misreading of…

— Richard Marshall

Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities.

— Warren Ellis

“I’m sorry. I may have been misreading the signals. I thought … I sort of thought you’d been flirting with me. I didn’t say…

— Mira Grant

In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress, a verb…

— Ian Mcewan

“Every reading is a misreading.”

— Phyllis Rose

“Fifteen love,' Chris said in a strong, clear voice as he set up for his next serve, and Elizabeth sensed that in addition to…

— Francine Pascal

I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.

— Harold Bloom

“Rob turned the rustling pages and grinned. 'Ach, she's writ here: "Oh, the dear Feegles ha' turned up again,"' he said. This met with…

— Terry Pratchett

Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate…

— Ed Crane