Quotes About Being Able To Read

#1. ...it is very well worth while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it. Consider - if reading had not been taught, Mrs. Radcliffe would have written in vain - or perhaps might not have written at all.

Jane Austen

#2. Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification.

Sara Sheridan

#3. Writing well has everything to do with being able to read one's own work with an eye toward the unmet possibilities that are there.

Lucy Calkins

#4. I went through eight years of classical piano lessons without being able to read notes. I only have to hear a melody to be able to play it. It used to freak my piano teacher out when he finally noticed that notes don't make any sense to me and that I played by ear.

Liam Howlett

#5. It must be though on you not being able to read, but it's not the end of the world. You might not be able to read, but there are things only you can do. That's what you gotta focus on - your strengths.

Haruki Murakami

#6. I've just always been a reader. My grandmother just expressed the importance of literacy, if I said that correctly. She just always expressed the importance of being able to write and being able to read.

Kevin Gates

#7. Yes, translation is by definition an inadequate substitute for being able to read a masterpiece in the original.

Terry Teachout

#8. I love the comfort of daily life's routines: things like being able to read a paper on the subway. It's no accident that my favourite word is 'quotidian.'

Elizabeth Strout

#9. It is very worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

Jane Austen

#10. When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.

Ron Jeffries

#11. Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.

Diana Gabaldon

#12. That was one of the bad things about being able to read: people could nag you from a great distance.

Ruth Downie

#13. Mothers are legendary for being able to read the thoughts of their children at just the right moment.

Vivian Vande Velde

#14. And Jack, who felt like he was on the cusp of being able to read minds and thought it would be all right if Luce wrote him down for that. ("I sense that you're okay with that, am I right?" He made a gun out of his fingers and clicked his tongue.)

Lauren Kate

#15. Being able to read a book in another language is a source of ego-stroking pride.

Emily O'Beirne

#16. My mum taught me how to read before I went to kindergarden, I always thought that being able to read provided lightness, help to dispel darkness, ignorance and stupidity.

Michael Moore

#17. Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language.

Gary Johnson

#18. Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

Yanni

#19. True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.

Ashton Kutcher

#20. And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.

Al Franken

#21. I was able to read poets that were - allowed me to be humorous without being silly.

Billy Collins

#22. In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space ... But you laid the foundation for space tourism.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

#23. Even though I had a deep conviction that I was good at writing, and that in some way I already was a writer, this conviction was completely independent of my having ever written anything, or being able to imagine ever writing anything, that I thought anyone would like to read.

Elif Batuman

#24. I had my own insecurities, which a lot of my comedy would come from, about not being able to live up to their academic expectations. Acting out those insecurities was a way of confronting them, like, "Let me just lean into being a guy who can't read or write."

Charlie Day

#25. You saw the way everyone looked at him? And when I asked for nominations, his was the first name mentioned. I don't like it, his being Nurse Temple's son. That's a bad coincidence. Get a read on him. If he has the power, we may not be able to wait to deal with him.

Michael Grant

#26. Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

Florence King

#27. I read that Buddha was able to see all of his past lives, and I realized the only way any of these people could do that is by being outside of time.

Fred Alan Wolf

#28. I am not Nostradamus.Nor would I want to be. I'm convinced being able to tell the future is the worst superpower. I'd rather be invisible and being invisible never ends well. Just read H. G. Wells!

Justine Larbalestier

#29. Being able to write creatively or read creative fiction is the best way to exercise your imagination.

Michael Pryor

#30. The clarity of Scripture means that the Bible is written in such a way that its teachings are able to be understood by all who will read it seeking God's help and being willing to follow it.

Wayne Grudem

#31. I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

Ornette Coleman

#32. Being able to pick and read good waves is almost more important than surfing well.

Shane Snow

#33. The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.

John Sladek

#34. Yesterday, when I took the stage for the sixth time, I read a poem about unreliable friends, people you love and feel bonded to but can never truly trust. It was about feeling alone and vulnerable, and never being able to fully let your guard down.

Tamara Ireland Stone

#35. After you read the script, then you actually just have to be in the moment you're in, in order to make it believable. You can't give it away. You can't tip it off. For me, it's always about being truthful in the moment I'm in. Hopefully, being able to reveal what I'm feeling, you have to believe it.

Victor Garber