Top 100 Read Books Sayings
#1. Only a few days earlier he had explained to her that he did not merely read books but traveled with them, that they took him to other countries and unfamiliar continents, and that with their help he was always getting to know new people, many of whom even became his friends.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#2. I sit at home and read books. I watch movies. I watch television. I go and play golf. I don't go to nightclubs. I don't go out to dinner that often. I'm not a big party guy.
Samuel L. Jackson
#3. I just stopped reading a lot of books. I mean, I read books that I have to read for school, but I don't actually pick up a book and read for fun. On my time off, I go to movies, hang out with friends, go shopping ... just little things.
Mark Indelicato
#4. I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.
Dane Cook
#5. We've reached the point where a Rhodes Scholar like Florida State's Joe O'Shea - a philosophy major, no less - is comfortable admitting not only that he doesn't read books but that he doesn't see any particular need to read them.
Nicholas Carr
#6. I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.
Dolly Parton
#7. You come up and read books?" asked Gregor. "Read them, eat them, whatever mood strikes me,
Suzanne Collins
#8. When I was a child I read books for entertainment and information; I now think of books as lifeboats.
Alice Walker
#9. She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.
Zora Neale Hurston
#10. Things were about to change. If nothing changed, I wouldn't be writing this down because this is a book about the time when everything changed. And isn't that what every book is about? No, seriously, isn't it? I don't read books.
David Iserson
#11. Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice.
Roger L'Estrange
#12. The teacher has assigned us a few chapters at a time, but I do not like to read books like
Stephen Chbosky
#13. You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and ideas, but you could never understand enough or have enough knowledge to keep away the surprises that both fate and human beings had in store.
Deb Caletti
#14. Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk to people no one else is talking to.
Ben Casnocha
#15. More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.
Vivienne Westwood
#16. You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
John Ruskin
#17. I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.
Walter Dean Myers
#18. We read books. They make us think. It matters very little whether we agree with the books or not.
Robert Henri
#19. If you miss the bus, miss the train, you'd be left behind. So everyone says, let's get on the train, let's get on the bus and go faster and get rich ... I just didn't like that kind of lifestyle. I love to read books, to listen to music.
Haruki Murakami
#21. Mostly because I've realized what a lame teenager I was. I was always home at the stroke of midnight; I didn't like drinking mash; I didn't have sex. I read books and had an inferiority complex because I was afraid to do all that other stuff. I don't know anything about being a badass punk rocker.
Karin Tidbeck
#22. Libraries are fascinating places; sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of traveling to distant lands.
Umberto Eco
#23. I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind.
Robert Jay Lifton
#24. I'm very comfortable with myself and my sexuality, but it doesn't define me. I also read books believe it or not.
Eva Mendes
#25. When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.
Anne Enright
#26. She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.
Nicholas Sparks
#27. Most of them won't have a book in the house, though, when they have to, they'll talk about the latest book that's selling millions of copies around the world. Our readers may not read books, but they are fascinated by great eccentric painters who sell for billions.
Umberto Eco
#28. I have read books that are so cliched and lazy, my eyes have bled. But I also have read books marketed under the chick-lit umbrella that are so honest, clever and gritty that I've wanted to give up writing and paint walls instead.
Jojo Moyes
#29. Even if our entire audiovisual legacy were to be lost in a power cut, we would still be able to read books in the light from the sun, or in the evening by a candlelight.
Jean-Claude Carriere
#30. People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books.
Paul Theroux
#31. I used to practice cello while watching TV and films. I watched several complete TV series this way, including 'Lost' and 'The Wire.' As a kid, I'd read books while playing.
Joshua Roman
#32. The most important thing in human relationship is conversation.but people don't talk anymore,they don't sit down to talk and listen.They go to theatre,the cinema,watch television,listen to the radio,read books but they almost never talk.(pg114)
Paulo Coelho
#33. Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.
Gene Tunney
#34. And that is the problem with a society that doesn't read books. The most painful form of censorship does not come from a centralized, repressive government. It is a cast, black cloak of a nation's indifference.
Lourd De Veyra
#35. That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve.
Johnny Ball
#36. I read books when I was a kid, lots of books. Books always seemed like magic to me. They took you to the most amazing places. When I got older, I realized I couldn't find books that took me to all the places I wanted to go. To go to those places, I had to write some books myself.
Pat Murphy
#37. Nerd herd, focus. You're here to help the fledglings. Dour One and Dour Two aren't important," said Aphrodite.
"Dr. Seuss reference. I like it," Stark said, giving me a check-me-out-I've-always-read-books hottie grin.
Aphrodite frowned at him.
"I said focus, not flirt.
P.C. Cast
#38. You must be compelled by an inner force to read books, listen to music, and view films which serve only to send you spiraling deeper into the bottomless pit of frustration.
Gary Reilly
#39. Canada was for me very much Sweden, you know? Very much open people, that they read books, they go see films. I felt at home in Canada. And also, you speak French.
Michael Nyqvist
#40. She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
Annie Dillard
#41. Digital doesn't interest me. It's too many steps removed from the actual tactile thing. I still read books. I don't read online.
Jessica Lange
#42. For life is practically a battle. To all intents and purposes a battle. Except for a few lucky fellows who can read books, and so avoid the realities.
E. M. Forster
#43. All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.
Tom Paulin
#44. In this place called Hell novels are written by people who don't read books.
Andy Seven
#45. Wise men read books about history. Strong men write them.
Pierce Brown
#47. One of the things I love about labeling myself as an author is that I can read books and call it "researching writing styles."
Mike Mankoff
Mike Mankoff
#48. He's not from here, that's the thing," Cub said.
"Just because he's the outsider, he has no say? Should we not read books, then, or listen to nobody outside this county? Where's that going to leave us?
Barbara Kingsolver
#49. What terrifies me is that I might somehow endorse that view so people think they don't have to read books anymore.
Steve Coogan
#50. I'm certainly not a linguist. I learned what languages I could learn in order to read books and I can't really speak them. I couldn't have stayed out of jail in most of them.
Clive James
#51. I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.
Shane Carruth
#52. I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people.
Elon Musk
#53. When I was a kid, I read books that made me laugh but also made me shiver in terror. I wanted to make books that made other people feel the same way.
Bruce Coville
#54. A friend suggested that I get a job at a children's book store so I could meet kids and read books, and that turned out to be the single best bit of advice I've ever gotten.
Brian Selznick
#55. Evelyn said, "What's it called when a person needs a ... person ... when you want to be touched and the ... two are like one thing and there isn't anything else at all anywhere?"
Alicia, who had read books, thought about it. "Love," she said at length. She swallowed. "It's a madness. It's bad.
Theodore Sturgeon
#56. I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.
Joyce Carol Oates
#57. People place so much value on thought, but feeling is as essential. I want to read books that make me laugh and cry and fear and hope and punch the air in triumph. I want a book to hug me or grab me by the scruff of my neck. I don't even mind if it punches me in the gut. Because we are here to feel.
Matt Haig
#58. Live cleanly, rightly, beautifully. Take walks and read books, laugh and save money...
A. Ras
#59. Don't just read books that are best-sellers or books that you agree with, challenge your own thinking as you're reading.
Rowena Crosbie
#60. Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.
China Mieville
#62. One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.
Jonathan Lethem
#63. I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has a clearly defined political goal is repellent to me.
Aleksandar Hemon
#64. World's most widely read books. In the years that followed, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Anchee Min, and Dith Pran shared their harrowing memories of the communist nightmares in the Soviet Union, China, and Cambodia.
Steven Pinker
#65. You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.
Anthony De Mello
#68. I educated myself, and it made me feel good. I went to museums. I read books. I did all the things, pretty much, that you would do in school. I would never want my kids to leave school, though, I'm really for education.
Stephanie Seymour
#69. There are two answers to the things they will teach you about our land: the real answer and the answer you give in school to pass. You must read books and learn both answers.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#70. Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen.
Blake Crouch
#71. I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
Mal Peet
#72. The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.
James Gleick
#73. If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts.
Anne Enright
#74. I honestly think I was an Indian living in the time of the Trail of Tears. Something like that. Every time I read books about back then, I get so devastatingly sad, so, so ... I feel such a deep connection to it.
Q'orianka Kilcher
#75. I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.
John Sayles
#76. I want to read books and go for walks and make dinner. I guess there are people who love working and that's great. I'm not one of them. I love tackling roles and I love theater, but filming, I don't get it. It seems mind-numbing to me.
Robert Sean Leonard
#77. I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
Alexander McQueen
#78. I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.
George R R Martin
#79. I love to read books that focus on parenting topics because there are so many different ways to do things. I find these books offer a lot of great opinions on many different subjects.
Kourtney Kardashian
#80. People read books and they find a new world that can change their lives
Akita Lovers
#81. People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.
Bob Dylan
#82. Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.
Melissa Marr
#83. Why do you read books?" he asked. "Why do you drink beer?" I replied without glancing in his direction,
Haruki Murakami
#84. I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.
Viggo Mortensen
#85. 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
#86. Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.
Jorge Luis Borges
#87. There is something about human nature that just doesn't want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live in the physical, material world where we have jobs, read books, and go about our business. And we live in a spiritual world - and that is a world at war.
John Eldredge
#88. I don't like to read books where I feel as though I've stepped into the middle of things and don't know what's going on. I like to see characters I've met before, but I don't want to feel left out because I haven't read other books in the series.
Jude Deveraux
#89. Keep calm and read books
Me
#90. I love to read books! There are so many authors that I think are really fun to read.
Tom Angleberger
#91. I feel as if someone is going to come along, feel my collar and say: 'Do you really think you can get people to read books you've made up about people that don't exist?'
Deborah Moggach
#92. I do not want to just read books; I want to crawl inside them and live there.
Anonymous
#93. From early youth I endeavored to read books in the right way and I was fortunate in having a good memory and intelligence to assist me.
Adolf Hitler
#94. Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby.
Jeff B. Davis
#95. I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I guess that's my favorite book. 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' even though I didn't read it, that's the greatest story. SparkNotes came in when I was in high school, and that was the greatest invention.
Meghan Trainor
#96. Never read books you aren't sure about . . . even supposing that these bad books are very well written from a literary point of view. Let me ask you this: Would you drink something you knew was poisoned just because it was offered to you in a golden cup?
John Bosco
#97. Life is short, so live extra lives. Read books.
Shannon Hale
#98. Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under chairs, books that I have read, books that I have not read.
Edna O'Brien
#99. You don't read books by living people?" "Living authors don't have any merit." "Why's that?" "Dead authors, as a rule, seem more trusting than live ones.
Anonymous
#100. One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing this reality, future generations are in danger of losing their history.
Nelson Mandela
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