Top 100 More You Read Quotes
#1. In the school of success, information is the greatest asset. The more you read, the more you discover, the more you discover, the more you recover and the better your life become.
Stella Oladiran
#2. The more you read, the more things you will know.
Dr. Seuss
#3. The more you read the Bible; and the more you meditate on it, the more you will be astonished with it.
Charles Spurgeon
#4. The Bible is endlessly interesting because it is God's story, and God by nature is himself endlessly interesting. The Bible is an ever-flowing fountain. The more you read it, the more you find its truth and beauty to be inexhaustible.
D. A. Carson
#5. This is every reader's catch-22: the more you read, the more you realize you haven't read; the more you yearn to read more, the more you understand that you have, in fact, read nothing. There is no way to finish, and perhaps that shouldn't be the goal.
Pamela Paul
#7. The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have.
Xinran
#8. I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you... and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No you is educated who cannot educate himself.
Mark Helprin
#9. The more you read, the better you get at it; the better you get at it, the more you like it;
and the more you like it, the more you do it.
And the more you read, the more you know;
and the more you know, the smarter you grow.
Jim Trelease
#10. The more you read the more places you will go,the more places you go the more things you will learn.
Dr. Seuss
#11. Reading is dangerous, because the more you read, the more you realise how little you know.
S.E. Sever
#12. Of course, the more you read, the more you learn, and ultimately there is more information than you can ever use. The difficulty is that as an outsider, you know you're too ignorant for your own good, and so the urge to keep researching and *never* start writing is pretty strong.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#14. Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers.
Scripps: No.
Dakin: It's consolation. All literature is consolation.
Alan Bennett
#15. And then, 'Why is a raven like a writing desk?' Those things just became so important to the character. You realize that the more you read it, if I read the book again today, I'd find 100 other things that I missed last time. It's a constantly changing book.
Johnny Depp
#16. It's amazing how the more you read, the less you know.
Anna Breslaw
#19. The more you read, the more you write, and the more you free yourself to do so, the better writer you will become.
A.D. Posey
#20. Books are the mirror of the soul ; the more you read the more you appear.
Osunsakin Adewale
#22. The more you read, the more you will find your thoughts and conversation reflecting your reading, and the more you will want to read.
Nancy Wilson
#23. One of those things where immediately when you started reading it, you knew it was something special and then the more you read, the more it surprised you, and the more you realized it was devoid of stereotype .
Ellen Page
#25. With each book, you get better as a writer. There is no back door to the industry. Read in the genre you want to write, as the more you read, the better you will get as an author.
Michelle Moran
#26. The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it.
Jim Trelease
#27. The thing about books was, the more you read and liked them, the more you wanted to have on hand to read. Before you knew it you needed more bookshelves, and then all of the sudden they filled your house.
Sui Ishida
#28. You can't build a vocabulary without reading. You can't meet friends if you ... stay at home by yourself all the time. In the same way, you can't build up a vocabulary if you never meet any new words. And to meet them you must read. The more you read the better.
Rudolf Flesch
#29. The more you read, the more you know. The more you know, the smarter you grow. The smarter you grow, the stronger your voice, when speaking your mind, or making your choice.
Primedia
#30. The more you read within a balanced life, the more time you have. Strange but true.
Mark Donnelly
#31. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.
Stephen King
#32. The more you read and observe about this Politics thing,
you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
The one that's out always looks the best
Will Rogers
#33. The more you read about and immerse in a culture, the more it comes alive, and the more textured and nuanced and detailed and unstereotypable it becomes.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#34. The more you read the novella, the more you should wonder, I think, which judgments are to be taken as bedrock.
Philip Kitcher
#35. The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.
Annie Dillard
#36. The more you read, the harder it is to condemn.
Glen Duncan
#37. For a writer it was perhaps most important not to write, but to read. Read as much as you can because in so doing you won't lose yourselves, become unoriginal, what happens is the opposite, by doing this you'll find yourselves. The more you read, the better. The
Karl Ove Knausgard
#38. The Bible is God speaking to mankind. The more you read the Bible, the more you will hear God speaking to you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#39. The more you read Scripture, the more you actually talk to God rather than think about fear.
Edward T. Welch
#40. Did you know that more than 65% of the people who label themselves "born again Christians" seldom or never read the Bible? Of those who do read the Bible, did you know that the majority only read it during church or organized group Bible studies?
James A. Durham
#41. Read, read . . . and then read some more. Read everything you can get your hands on! Reading to a writer is as medical school is to a doctor, as physical training is to an athlete, as breathing is to life.
Andrew Joyce
#42. I love sushi, though I just read something about how you shouldn't eat sushi more than once a week.
Jacqueline Obradors
#43. You must read a lot."
"More than my friends think I should, but less than I'd like. Given the choice, I'd rather read than eat, sleep, or breathe.
J. Scott Savage
#44. Think Positively.
Network well.
Eat healthy.
Work Smart.
Stay Strong.
Build faith.
Worry less.
Read more.
Be happy.
Volunteer freely.
Relax often.
Love always.
Live eternally
and you will see doors open to your favor.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#45. In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked, 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?'
Marisha Pessl
#46. Someday you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! I shall be more alive than I am now. I will just have changed my address. I will have gone into the presence of God.
Billy Graham
#47. If you expect me to read your mind you're going to have to think more clearly.
Spuds Crawford
#48. I have always read all my reviews, the bad along with the good (although you remember the bad much more than the good!). I am just too curious to see how it's playing with the audience, and I have a thick-enough skin to handle the less charitable assessments.
Frank Spotnitz
#49. When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#50. I find that there are two kinds of books; the ones that make you want to read more and those that make you want to write more.
Harmann Pitts
#52. Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.
Annie Dillard
#54. Nothing's changed. When people read The Highwayman , they see it all in their heads. Their imagination is way more powerful than anything you can throw onto the screen. Look at the great graphic novels they've already butchered.
Glenn Benest
#55. Will I be less dead because I wrote this poem or you more because you read it long years hence.
Maya Angelou
#56. Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. And the cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history. Part of the problem before the Internet was that we didn't know which books to read. Someone had to tell you.
Kathleen Hanna
#57. One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but read. It's the best, because it does the least. It doesn't even show a clock.
Marco Arment
#58. Reading has made me more open, has improved my understanding, and has made me a better artiste, but it also makes me live in my own bubble. My mom keeps asking me, 'What do you read in that room the whole day?' Once I am into a book, I will finish it.
Sonam Kapoor
#59. So do you think there's more to her than meets the eye!" he teased, and Alex cursed herself for being so easy to read.
"My guess is she's running from something.
"No shit Sherlock", she agreed silently. "Probably a guy. It's nearly always a guy.
Melissa Hill
#60. And when you finish reading, read some more.
Eric Thomas
#61. Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?
S.A. Tawks
#62. When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
Clifton Fadiman
#63. I had never feared insomnia before
like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?
Lorrie Moore
#65. Today anyone on the Internet can find out more about what you read, think, and earn than the secret police of Stalin or Hitler could have learned.
Robert Scheer
#66. I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim.
Wilford Brimley
#67. I was always furious because you couldn't take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your three books and read them and it would still be only five o'clock. The library didn't shut till half past, but you couldn't change the books till the next day.
Fay Weldon
#68. I don't care about people kissing my ass or telling me how great I am. I don't really give a damn. I read the bad stuff a whole lot more than I read the good stuff. I read that because there are always going to be critics who are going to say how good you aren't.
Richard Sherman
#69. I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids, which helps. I'm always working on something, whether a book, or a law review article that no one will ever read, or teaching. It pretty much means I work a lot, but it's all stuff I love.
Alafair Burke
#70. The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Dr. Seuss
#71. (D.L. Moody, who said in his dying days)In a little while you will read in the newspaper that I am dead. Do not believe a word of it, for I will be more alive than ever before.
Karen Kingsbury
#72. Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it.
Tara Strong
#73. ...I thought you would like something a touch more substantial after weeks of eating nothing but"-she picked up a box of Pop-Tarts, squinting at the label as she read the ingredients-"high-fructose corn syrup.
Melissa Grey
#74. If you don't have time to read, then you have more time to write. Simple as that.
Stephen King
#75. When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.
George Saunders
#76. See, whoever said I was an autocrat was clearly mistaken. I represented the height of representative democracy where everyone gets a vote. Mine just counted for more than all the other ones combined, when you read the final tally; that's all.
Luke Sky Wachter
#77. You know,(in Life) everyone's an author, We need to read each other more and kindly respond.
James Francis
#78. Also bear in mind, when you're choosing your words and stringing them together, how they sound. This may seem absurd: readers read with their eyes. But in fact they hear what they are reading far more than you realize.
William Zinsser
#79. You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it's too much, too much fantasy, and so I am busy with other stuff - it's funny, it's nice to hear that someone is studying that carefully and now I know a little bit more about that.
H.R. Giger
#80. More often than not, you will never be judged by your intentions because the world can't read minds and very few will know the heart of a person they have not given time to know personally.
Shannon L. Alder
#81. 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 reading yourself as fact.
Jeanette Winterson
#82. I don't watch a whole lot of stand up. Mainly I prefer to read writers; they make me laugh the most. Something gets you when you're alone and someone's voice is coming through their work. There's a different quality to it that stays with you a bit more.
Dylan Moran
#83. Like, every couple of months you read, they rewrite, you come back in, they've animated more stuff - they usually videotape you while you're reading it - so they'll incorporate some gestures and some facial expressions into it.
John Goodman
#84. I knew you read the Symposium in the vac," he said in a low voice.
Maurice felt uneasy.
"Then you understand - without me saying more - "
"How do you mean?"
Durham could not wait. People were all around them, but with eyes that had gone intensely blue he whispered, "I love you.
E. M. Forster
#85. If then, Sir William Jones, who read in thirty languages, could not read the simplest peasant's face in its profounder and more subtle meanings, how may unlettered Ishmael hope to read the awful Chaldee of the Sperm Whale's brow? I but put that brow before you. Read it if you can.
Herman Melville
#86. And it is that one percent, the heads of large corporations, who control the policies of news media and determine what you and I hear on radio, read in the newspapers, see on television. It is more important for us to think about where the media gets its information.
Assata Shakur
#87. Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.
Amy Hempel
#88. You learned this," Kabsal said, lifting up her drawing of Jasnah, "from a book."
"Er ... yes?"
He looked back at the picture. "I need to read more.
Brandon Sanderson
#89. The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.
Garth Ennis
#90. I read as many novels as you do. Maybe more. I'm just not sure I want to write one.
Lenore Appelhans
#91. All of you favorite books wouldn't seem so well written if you were just a little bit more well read.
Craig Finn
#92. A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
E.L. Doctorow
#93. The best thing you can do when you're not feeling funny is go out and get more stimuli from the world, get out and walk around, read a book, go talk to some birds or a dog and replenish the well, as it were.
Rob Delaney
#94. If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are far more enthusiastic for that kind of comic than you are, and they'll kick your ass every time.
Scott McCloud
#95. You're grounded!!!! You can't go out and prowl the L.A. streets. You've got to do something more edifying, emboldening and altogether more groovy. You gots to stay home tonite and read a good book!!!!!!!!!!
James Ellroy
#96. I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody what they read.
Gabrielle Zevin
#97. Nevertheless I have more than enough information to know his mood. This is apparent not from his facial expressions but his physical posture, and you do not read it with your mind but with your intuition.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#98. I'm more Jewish than you think I am ... I read the part of the Bible that said the Jews are God's chosen people.
Rick Perry
#99. You can read a book more than once, you know. You might even find a book inside the book.
Kate Westerlund
#100. Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when Dennis Bergkamp was playing. He seemed to be able to read the game like a chessboard and knew where a player would be several seconds later and put the ball there for him.
Marcus Du Sautoy
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