Top 100 Quotes About Read More
#1. To be happy with myself and always make others happy. To be confident and give others confidence in themselves. To smile, to surf, to laugh and make others laugh. To read more widely. To try to be more tolerant of my weaknesses and of others, and not to be so hard on myself all the time.
Chrissie Wellington
#2. I love books so much. I've read more books than anyone else I know.
Daniel Tammet
#3. In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few sentences.
Tim Frick
#4. code is read more than it's written. This
Paul Barry
#5. Public life in this country is too damn dominated by people who'd read more if only their lips didn't get so tired.
Markham Shaw Pyle
#6. I know I mispronounce things constantly, because maybe I read more than I talk, but I don't know the proper way to say a lot of things, even though I know what they are. But then I know I look like a moron.
Amy Heckerling
#7. I feels sorrier for him than anybody I knows. I expect he done read more books than any white man in this town. He done read more books and he done worried about more things. He full of books and worrying. He done lost God and turned his back on religion. His troubles come down just to that.
Carson McCullers
#8. Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.
Martin Amis
#9. Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine is a warp into the middle of a wildly imaginative mythology and I'm itching to read more.
Rick Remender
#10. Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, two publications read more faithfully in Hollywood than the Koran is in Mecca.
Jack Paar
#11. I will always find something that I want to try and become better at. I always love to spend more time with my friends, more time with my family, my extended family. I always want to read more books.
Connie Nielsen
#12. Every band I've come across has read more than I have.
Marcus Mumford
#13. I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon it. I have piles of half-read books waiting for me to get acute hepatitis or some other serious condition that would force me to rest so that I could read more.
Isabel Allende
#14. If you read more, worked harder, thought things through smartly, or wrote or argued better than other people, you won.
James Rebanks
#16. The answer of understanding more books... is reading more. That's the answer or read more creepypasta or listen to creepypasta.
Deyth Banger
#17. I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
Felix Dennis
#18. It doesn't matter if you prefer reading James Joyce or "James and the Giant Peach." Those who read more read better.
Danny Brassell
#19. I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.
Chang-rae Lee
#20. He was like a book, where each chapter picks up pace until you can't put it down. That's when you know you've made a friend - when you want to read more of his story.
Katie Kacvinsky
#21. I think if people read more, that is a better world.
Jeff Bezos
#22. Will my future faith be dominated by past demons? Will my unlimited possibilities give way to my limited territory?
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Michelle Carithers
#23. Yesterday we were able to understand more than what we read; but today, we read more than what we can understand.
M.F. Moonzajer
#24. My advice to aspiring writers is to read more, write more, and network more. More, more, and more. Then, after you've done all that, do it some more.
Jarod Kintz
#25. I've read every single fantasy novel there is. I mean, I would challenge a lot of people to read more fantasy novels than I have.
Felicia Day
#26. I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
Idina Menzel
#27. I still tend to read more urban fantasy and romance than science-fiction, but every once in a while, a couple of books will come along and knock my socks off.
Shiloh Walker
#29. 2013 will be the year I read more! and more!
Janet Horn
#31. You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#32. Sometimes I go, "What am I doing with my life?" But then I get letters from young women, or people come up to me, and they say, "You've made such a difference to my confidence." And that is a good thing. I should read more fan mail though. I'm crap at responding.
Helena Bonham Carter
#33. When Bernie Sanders came along, and I liked his tweets and I read more about him, researched him more, I decided I like him and his policy, even more than just I like another guy in the Democratic Party, I really believed in it. And when you believe in something, you get out and work for it.
Killer Mike
#34. Monsters don't scare me at all; I think creepy is scarier than gore. I tend to read more thrillers and mysteries than horror, though. I like a good whodunnit. If I want scary, I tend to reach for a movie. I think it's a great medium for horror.
Sarah Pinborough
#35. But I already know a little, and I can read more in your face and in the thought behind your questions.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#36. Readers are smart and they know how to read more than just a book; they know how to read their authors.
Suzanne Steele
#37. I've read over 4,000 books in the last 20+ years. I don't know anybody who's read more books than I have. I read all the time. I read very, very fast. People say, "Larry, it's statistically impossible for you to have read that many books."
Larry Winget
#38. A fawn eats the equivalent of its body weight every twenty-four hours." "How do you know that?" "Read it in a book. I read sixty books last year." "Geez," he said. "Why?" "'Cause there wasn't time to read more," she said with a superior sniff. "Hard
Susan Wiggs
#39. I've read more truth in fiction than in nonfiction, partly because fiction can deal with the numinous, and nonfiction rarely does.
Dean Koontz
#40. I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.
Jim C. Hines
#41. I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband has told me repeatedly. He has even suggested that my rapacious reading resembles an addiction.
Siri Hustvedt
#42. I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.
Jodie Foster
#43. I have always had a keen interest in defence and military history and read more on this subject than anything else.
Bob Ainsworth
#44. When things go right, I read. When things go wrong, I read more.
Sara Nelson
#45. I have always felt validated and it shouldn't take film to do that for writer, but I'm glad it has. My plan has always been to be read more widely by doing just what I've always done. I wanted to break into the mainstream without becoming mainstream.
Joe R. Lansdale
#47. It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author; usually only one.
Isaac Marion
#48. Fans mean everything to me. Writing for pleasure is extremely satisfying but having readers enjoy my work and want to read more is just wonderful and means so much to me. I love the interactivity and always look forward to hearing from, and writing for, fans!
Gwyneth Williams
#49. I hadn't had a chance to read an entire novel in weeks.
Whatever the others might say about politics, civil war, and hunters, the real evil was lack of reading time. If they all read more they might freak out less. And if I was going to live forever I was going to have to start a reading list.
Alyxandra Harvey
#50. With the 'Hazelwood High' trilogy, I wasn't sure I was writing a trilogy. I would just write one book, then another, and then another, because the young adults who wrote me told me that they wanted to read more.
Sharon Draper
#51. I was only good at one thing: words. I had read more, much more, than anybody else, and I knew how words worked in the way that some boys knew how engines worked.
Jeanette Winterson
#52. Oh, I love to read more than anything. I always love the 'New Stories From the South' anthologies - I think it's the best short fiction collection anywhere, just filled with treasures.
Lucy Alibar
#54. My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour.
Jazz Feylynn
#55. As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it became difficult for me to sustain the belief structure in the supernatural.
Daniel Everett
#56. When I was younger I only read sports books. I loved the biographies that told how athletes developed. When I got into coaching, I did start to read more instructional books, but I was always more interested in the people behind the ideas.
Tony Dungy
#57. I read more widely. I made friends more widely. I wore more red. I stayed home on Sundays. I did things that were never in the realm of possible things to do before. That was a real desert experience for me.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#58. To know more, read more, watch more, listen more!
Deyth Banger
#59. You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history
Iain Banks
#60. The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#61. Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats vanguard gestures of the past minus the politics and historical context.
Ben Lerner
#62. I'm one of those people who, if time permits, can read more than one book at a time, sometimes three. I don't know if that's indicative of an attention deficit disorder, all I know is that I've always been that way.
Janalyn Robnett
#63. Want to get your kids to read more? Try making books easily accessible. Put them where kids can easily reach and don't make them off limits. (within reason)
Melanie Kirk
#64. I don't want to read more into it than there is. I try not to overanalyze anymore, as it tends to make me self-centered. If there is a deeper message in what happened in the last year and a half, I'm not going to look under every rock for it. Just let God be God.
Wayne Watson
#65. Books were a dependable pleasure. I read more then than I ever was able to read again until now when I am too old to work much and am mostly alone.
Wendell Berry
#66. I've read many more books than you. It doesn't matter how many you've read. I've read more. Believe me.
Nicola Yoon
#67. And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
#68. The fact that we don't read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that are about a hundred times as big as the newspapers anywhere else.
Bennett Cerf
#69. No one can read two thousand books. In the four hundred years I have lived, I've not read more than half a dozen
Jorge Luis Borges
#70. I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.
Gardner Dozois
#71. Book Cheating: When you read more than one book at once because there are so many book-boyfriends to choose from.
Jennifer Bardsley
#72. Marvelous! Very exciting. I thoroughly enjoyed the story and I can't wait to read more.
(About the book Dominique Ick Lessont and the Dragon Knight)
Stephen Noce
#73. You will remember some of what you hear; much of what you read; more of what you see, and almost all of what you experience and understand fully.
Keith L. Moore
#74. I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce.
Rick Riordan
#75. 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
#77. I have read more about Oprah Winfrey's ass than I have about the rise of China as an economic superpower. I fear this is no exaggeration. Perhaps China is rising as an economic superpower because its women aren't spending all their time reading about Oprah Winfrey's ass.
Caitlin Moran
#78. 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
#79. Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
Khaled Hosseini
#80. She had a great respect for books herself, and she wished that she had read more. One could never read enough. Never.
Alexander McCall Smith
#81. At one point I took a copy of Berkeley's Principles from my father's library. That was the first philosophy book I read. I found it fascinating and wanted to read more philosophy.
Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
#82. I read more than other kids; I luxuriated in books. Books were my refuge.
Anne Lamott
#83. I remain totally convinced that if we can do one more simple thing to help kids and adults to learn more, it is to inspire them to read more.
Dolly Parton
#84. That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.
Charles Caleb Colton
#86. At the end of the day, I'm just trying to write a song that I like, that I'm not afraid to turn loose on the world. I do read a lot. I know a lot of people who read more, but I do try to keep a book in my hand most of the time, and I think that informs any kind of output that I'm going to have.
Jason Isbell
#87. Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once; a journalist has to accept the fact that his work, by its very todayness, is excluded from any share in tomorrow.
Cyril Connolly
#88. 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
#89. People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.
G.K. Chesterton
#90. Who knows if Shakespeare might not have thought less if he had read more?
Edward Young
#91. True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.
Lester B. Pearson
#93. 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
#94. In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
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Leo Tolstoy
#95. I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job.
Rick Riordan
#96. I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.
Rick Moody
#97. Though people may read more into Ulysses than I ever intended, who is to say that they are wrong: do any of us know what we are creating?Which of us can control our scribblings? They are the script of one's personality like your voice or your walk
James Joyce
#98. I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
Irvine Welsh
#99. 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
#100. It's not an accident that successful people read more books.
Seth Godin
