Top 100 Read Good Quotes
#1. Conservatives don't want to read good, smart books. They mostly want to read Fox and talk radio hosts writing about presidents.
Alex Pareene
#2. I recognize myself to a lesser or greater extent in everything I read, good and bad, and that's part of being a human being if you're honest enough. And obviously the darker parts are the things you don't let control you.
Rufus Sewell
#3. I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.
Scott Corbett
#4. The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency
the belief that the here and now is all there is.
Allan Bloom
#5. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. MARK TWAIN
Guy Kawasaki
#6. I get a sick joy out of bad reviews. I don't read good reviews.
Evan Goldberg
#7. For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
Daniel Alarcon
#8. Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work.
Kira Hawke
#9. Being able to pick and read good waves is almost more important than surfing well.
Shane Snow
#10. Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics.
Jerome K. Jerome
#11. It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer.
John Grisham
#12. My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.
Dick Schaap
#13. If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#14. To me, I read good reviews in lots of papers and bad reviews in lots of papers.
Sheila Nevins
#15. I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.
Tom Peters
#16. Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.
Patricia Briggs
#17. Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
S.E. Hinton
#18. Life is short. Read good books!
Tina Shaw
#20. Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.
Jane Kenyon
#21. I want people to read good work. If I see someone reading a book by Lorrie Moore or Jennifer Egan, I'm psyched. If I see them reading X Latin American Writer Who Sucks, I'm not psyched. But in terms of news, I do think that's important.
Daniel Alarcon
#22. Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.
Carmen Agra Deedy
#23. My background really comes from geekdom and the idea of building a smart machine. If we're going to build a smart machine, let's have it read good books.
Brewster Kahle
#24. If you want to understand the inner workings of the human mind, read good fiction.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#25. Stop to read good writers who are witty and are fun, 'cause that's the kind of fuel on which your Train of Thought will run.
Mister Lemur
#26. Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing.
Carol Berg
#27. Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can
Louisa May Alcott
#28. Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't.
Mark Twain
#29. You can't read good-night stories to your bank account, or brush its hair, or teach it how to ride a bike for the first time.
Marko Kloos
#30. Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.
Ernest Dimnet
#31. Read good books many times,
rather than many books
Seneca.
#32. If You don't read good books, then you are no better than an unlettered Man
Mark Twain
#33. Tip 7. Read good books until the characters in each story run from you in terror.
James W. Lewis
#34. The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
Gene Fowler
#35. Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
Barbara Bush
#36. I don't read good reviews. I like to know what percentages are going on. When Sony sends out something saying that people are liking the movie, I like to know that, but I don't actually sit and read the good stuff.
Evan Goldberg
#38. The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the fellow who can't read a line.
Mark Twain
#40. It's weird because I am accessible to people on Twitter, and I can choose to read good things or mean things, and people can reach out to me directly and tell me how much they hate me or love the song. It's a very strange new paradigm as an artist to find yourself among this kind of connectivity.
Jenny Lewis
#41. When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.
Sharon Creech
#43. It only takes one minute to find a really good book, but it can give you a lifetime of memories when you read a really good book that leaves you with lasting impression.
Nahisha McCoy
#44. It's really hard when people write nasty things about you all the time. As much as good things are said about you, it's always those one or two bad comments that really stay with you and gnaw at you. I try not to read that stuff if I can.
Jordin Sparks
#45. All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.
Leslie Fiedler
#46. American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
Gary Shteyngart
#47. Try to be pleasant to one another, get plenty of fresh air, read a good book now and then, depose your government when it suspends the free press, try to use the mechanism of the state to adjudicate fairly and employ diplomatic means wherever possible to avoid armed conflict.
Jasper Fforde
#48. The Language Laboratory at Cambridge is a very good way of finding out about grammar and the vocabulary and that's why I learned to read German and later on I added Spanish, the standard European languages.
Clive James
#49. 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
#50. Really good 'hard' novels - say, Wolf Hall - yield, if you read them carefully, the information you need when you need it, in order to follow their paths. But there is a point at which subtle storytelling maneuvers outmaneuver their own intelligibility.
Daniel Menaker
#51. Nobody wants to read about a good-looking happy person.
Carrie Fisher
#52. Be a good reading role model. Show kids what you like to read, what you don't like to read, how you choose what you read. Let them see you reading.
Jon Scieszka
#54. I respond to about a quarter of comments. It's a good barometer of my mental health - when I'm healthy and busy, I don't read them.
Meghan Daum
#55. You know, I've kinda been freaking out over being a father, but then I read in a men's magazine somewhere that as long as you can keep your son off the pipe and your daughter off the pole, that you've done a good job.
Jillian Dodd
#56. 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
#57. Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
Aaron Spelling
#58. I don't usually read reviews. I usually read the interviews, just because I figure it's a good way to try to do them better if I ever have to do them again.
Will Oldham
#60. Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read.
Rod Serling
#61. Because with a really good book you get something new every time you read it. Because ... Well ... Because you're a different person each time.
Derrolyn Anderson
#62. I don't really think in terms of making something that is going to be bought everywhere, because I don't read those things. My writing is a process in which I try my best to make good sentences and a sequence of events that is compelling and believable.
Tom Drury
#63. Death is not good. It's just a fact. We don't need to give it so much importance. So I don't want to read anything that talks about it.
Aditi Bose
#64. I JUST FINISHED READING WOLF RIDER SUCH A GOOD BOOK...YOU HAVE TO TO READ IT!!!!
Avi
#65. Armies aren't very good about carrying libraries with them. I can't imagine why. We'd fight so much less if everyone would juste sit down and read
Cynthia Hand
#66. But stranger than that was the feeling he had, that everything had been worth it, that all his miseries were going to end, that he was going to a life that would be as good as, perhaps better than, anything he had read about in books.
Hanya Yanagihara
#67. No matter how good a story is, if you're at a newsstand and you see a lot of comic books, you don't know how good the story is unless you read it. But you can spot the artwork instantly, and you know whether you like the artwork, whether it grabs you or not.
Stan Lee
#68. I read certain articles about how all of the new filmmakers are immediately being given massive tentpoles, and there's a lot of original movies that we have now lost as a result of this. I don't want to call it a fad because I think it's a good thing. I think the movies are better as a result.
Colin Trevorrow
#69. I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.
David Crosby
#70. I'm very conscious about putting good food into my body. Years ago, I went to see an amazing healer called Allah, who could read your body. She told me that I can't absorb vitamins very well, and I have to eat the right things to get my vitamins. I've always remembered that.
Trinny Woodall
#71. And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!
David Herbert Donald
#72. In junior high school, I learned that I could be good at school. I remember liking the freedom to choose classes and the pleasure of learning and doing well. My perseverance and love of reading had somehow allowed me to overcome many disadvantages of dyslexia, and I read a lot of books for pleasure.
Carol W. Greider
#73. I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're in the middle of putting your work together.
Norman Mailer
#74. It's not a good idea to cut back indiscriminately on what you read. The reason is that reading can save you time, because it gives you the opportunity to learn from other people's experience.
Kathryn Alesandrini
#75. He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#76. Yes, my child, you must read. You must read everything that comes your way. It doesn't matter what you read at first, later you'll learn discrimination. Schools are no good, Matty, you learn nothing at school. If you want to be anything, you must educate yourself.
Doris Lessing
#77. When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.
Richard Peck
#78. If you're having a not so good day, all you have to do is read or watch something with an happy ending.
Karlene Pitters
#79. But you can still find good films if you read your local film critics and are willing to drive a bit. You have to be a proactive film viewer to have the most provocative cinema life.
Stephen Hunter
#80. One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
Annalena McAfee
#81. People who have had a stroke and are recovering from it love being read to ... especially by someone who is a good reader - it does help them to get better.
Ruth Rendell
#82. A really good uniformed cop has tremendous people skills, and they learn how to read people.
Titus Welliver
#83. A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#84. There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring biography of them - you can read every new one that comes along, good or bad, and be caught up in the story all over again.
Robert Gottlieb
#85. Life is too short to read books whose cleverness makes them impenetrable. A good book should keep you awake at night, flickering through pages as you promise yourself just one more chapter; they shouldn't put you to sleep as you tackle a paragraph for the fifth time.
Kate Morton
#86. I don't finish a lot of the books I read. I get enormous pleasure from reading half f them, two-thirds of them, even incredibly good books. But I don't feel it's my duty to finish them. I read the last few pages and find out what happens at the end.
Jackie French
#87. Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.
Peter Greenaway
#88. Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
Orlando Bloom
#89. Shades of Grey. I haven't read it yet, but what you have to read carefully, is "Story of O" by the French writer Dominique Aury. This is actually the forerunner of all the whole SM novels and it's really good. You have to read it.
Theo Hutchcraft
#90. You know what I think that button [in Kremlin] should have read? It should've read "delete." Y'know, she [Hillary Clinton] is very good at that by the way.
Chris Christie
#91. I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.
Ken Thompson
#92. There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do. It's one reason why we love them so much, in fact. They are neither "good" nor "bad." They don't hold grudges, act in petty ways, or seek revenge. They read our moods, but not our minds.
Jon Katz
#93. That's what a good book does-it puts readers on their knees. It makes you want to believe in a world you just read about-the one that will make you feel different about the world you thought you lived in, the world that will never be the same.
Pat Conroy
#94. I love to write, and I love to read too, but that doesn't mean I like to write about reading - 'cause nothing ruins the fun of reading a good story like the evil English army of Discuss, Analyze, and that hideous duo Compare and Contrast.
Kevin Emerson
#95. Great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.
Charles Bukowski
#96. It certainly seems like a good idea to talk about Heaven, meditate about Heaven and read about Heaven, because, after all, that's where we're going to spend eternity.
David Berg
#97. My brother can read people like a story. He knows when a smile's covering sadness and which sparkly-eyed look is a sure sign of a secret. He can hear a broken heart in the sound of someone's voice. He's especially good at reading me.
Natalie Lloyd
#98. Like many people, I only knew of Ford Madox Ford through a book called 'The Good Soldier,' which is everybody's favorite Ford Madox Ford if they have one, but I came to read 'Parade's End' when it was suggested via Damien Timmer of Mammoth Screen.
Tom Stoppard
#99. Learning to read music in Braille & play by ear helped me develop a [very] good memory.
Ray Charles
#100. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that could you recommend.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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