Read The Book Quotes

#1. Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that I love the movie so much that I will, of course, read the book.

Tatiana De Rosnay

#2. Why wait for the movie tomorrow, when you can read the book today!

Carmela Dutra

#3. There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.

J.D. Salinger

#4. I wished I could take every course in the curriculum and read every book in the library. Sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else read the book, and track them down to talk about it.

Susan Crandall

#5. The good news is that I read the book, and because of its fantasy nature, I could not pretend that I was in the book. That way I could participate and still read.

Stephen Chbosky

#6. You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read.

Markus Zusak

#7. When you read the book you see that these guys aren't holding any punches. They're straightforward. They're honest. They're giving you their honest opinion.

Charles Barkley

#8. You ever talk about a movie with someone that read the book? They're always so condescending. 'Ah, the book was much better than the movie.' Oh really? What I enjoyed about the movie: no reading.

Jim Gaffigan

#9. In this scene, I'm talking about how much I don't like cookies ... I'm sayin', 'Listen, guys. Have you read the book? We're not supposed to be eating.'

Robert Pattinson

#10. When i first read the book it was sooo amazing soo i decide to read the whole series but when i got up to no.2 books it got sad i was abite crying at the end but you should read the book it soo amazing

Lemony Snicket

#11. Burn the book. It serves you once.
Read the book. Serves you for a lifetime.
Lend the book. It serves for generations to come.

Kowtham Kumar K

#12. It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it.

Bille August

#13. We all move on from history to chance, sorrow to sorrow, hope to hope, joy to joy.
Read the book of fiction on the theme. its title is FROM HISTORY TO CHANCE

Jamaluddin Jamali

#14. I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.

Ezra Cornell

#15. I'm fine, Ari. Read the book."
"If you're sure?"
He shook his head, lowering his gaze again. "Ari, guys aren't like girls. When we say we're fine we actually mean it.

Samantha Young

#16. Read the book, Shadow over the Winter Palace," Sam Hugh explained. "It's about the Russian Czar Nicholas II and his crazy wife." Of course, Santos

Anita Paddock

#17. Oh, oh, oh I can't do that and that... Okay I will do that,... I gonna read this book, I will check out this film and in the end few of them have read the book or the books and the film or the films.

Deyth Banger

#18. I think life is a book," Eleanor said. "God writes it. We're His characters. He knows what happens on the next page, but we don't. Heaven is where we get to read the book cover to cover and see how it all makes sense.

Tiffany Reisz

#19. I don't know much about anything in this world but I do know how to read the book written in his eyes.

Tahereh Mafi

#20. Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest thing in my life when I got cast in it. I couldn't believe it. When I was 17 and read the book, I looked it up on IMDb and it said that Francis Ford Coppola was going to direct it.

Garrett Hedlund

#21. Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really thought or felt about things made sense.

Carol Gilligan

#22. I don't believe in skipping ahead Dale. I read the book all the way through.

Jay Crownover

#23. I think everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. Everyone has read the book and watched the Disney film and all that.

Charlie Rowe

#24. I wrote back with a quick message:
How do you know about 24601? I refuse to believe you read the book. You saw the musical, right?
I hit send and received a response back from him almost immediately.
SparkNotes.

Richelle Mead

#25. This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.

Victor Hugo

#26. I have been in five Harry Potter films and never read a 'Harry Potter' book. If you are an actor, all you have is the script you are given. If you read the book, you might get disappointed about what's been left out.

Michael Gambon

#27. I look for interesting titles that are curious and make people think. A lot of people are always so caught up in their lives. But if I make them smile through my titles or provoke them a little bit then maybe they will think about things and read the book and take something away from it.

Robin Sharma

#28. Shakespeare was not a scholar in the sense we regard the term to-day, yet no man ever lived or probably ever will live that equalled or will equal him in the expression of thought. He simply read the book of nature and interpreted it from the standpoint of his own magnificent genius.

Joseph Devlin

#29. Being in control of your own destiny is a myth - and wouldn't be half as much fun anyway. Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, it's still okay to feel responsible for someone else's.

Michael J. Fox

#30. Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.

Joanna Trollope

#31. If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work.

Tucker Max

#32. Lay aside all conceit Learn to read the book of Nature for yourself. Those who have succeeded best have followed for years some slim thread which once in a while has broadened out and disclosed some treasure worth a life-long search.

Louis Agassiz

#33. I try to answer all my fan mail. Sometimes I get questions from people who obviously only read the Wiki but haven't read the books. I'm like, 'But you have to read the book or you're not going to get it.'

Cassandra Clare

#34. It's difficult for me to imagine any scene differently because I've read the book so many times. The book, as a whole, seems like a document that wouldn't withstand any changes at this point. Or perhaps I simply can't imagine having to revise it again.

Mary J. Miller

#35. As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

Iain Banks

#36. Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#37. I knew the story of 'War Horse' very well. I had read the book even before I did the auditions. I'm a big fan of Michael Morpurgo.

Celine Buckens

#38. I've read the 'Book of Revelation' a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded.

Megan Fox

#39. In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

Edmund Wilson

#40. O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.

William Shakespeare

#41. If you can read the book and say, 'Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!' That's Military Science Fiction." (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012)

Brandon Sanderson

#42. DID YOU KNOW WHETHER OR NOT [SPOILER REDACTED BECAUSE I KNOW PEOPLE WILL READ THIS DISCUSSION GUIDE BEFORE THEY'VE READ THE BOOK, EVEN THOUGH I JUST FORBADE YOU TO DO SO LIKE SIX PARAGRAPHS AGO] WAS INTENTIONAL WHILE YOU WERE WRITING IT?

John Green

#43. The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world ...

Henry Giroux

#44. You may hold as many (literature) degrees as your hands (and pockets) may take, but if you have NOT read the book 'Le Grand Voyage' by Jorge Semprun, preferably in French (Yes we can! and I can't speak that language) then you ain't seen nothing yet...

Itzik Sivosh

#45. Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea.

William Shakespeare

#46. Language is a door. Words en-trance and are an entrance; they draw you in. When you read, the book you cradle disappears and the tales within unfold in your mind. Writing is a shelter of words and reading an interior adventure.

Laurie Seidler

#47. When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?

Baltasar Kormakur

#48. You'll have to read the book, and don't interrupt me. It's distracting enough looking at you. You've already derailed my brain train with your face several times.

Penny Reid

#49. Probably a good idea, let me know how it ends"
"I already know how it ends"
"You read the ending first?"
"I always read the ending before I commit to the whole book."
"If you know how it ends, why read the book?"
"I don't read for the ending. I read for the story".

Jayne Ann Krentz

#50. Everyone always looked at the cover and never took the time to read the book.

Angela Scott

#51. I read the book again that night because I knew that if I didn't, I would probably start crying again.

Stephen Chbosky

#52. I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was.

Daniel Clowes

#53. I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research documents and biographies. If it's a fictional character, I work off the script.

Luke Evans

#54. They were made up names in Dune that I didn't know how to pronounce, but I knew how I should sound because I was a sci-fi fan myself. I hadn't read the book, but I knew that I was the princess of the universe. I went in and sort of made her up, and David Lynch thought it matched and cast me.

Virginia Madsen

#55. If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think.

Marjane Satrapi

#56. Please read the book slowly because it took me a long time to write.

A.W. Rock

#57. I am never going to please all 100 million people who read the book. I'll be lucky if half that number are happy with me playing Christian Grey. I know there are campaigns of hate against me already.

Jamie Dornan

#58. And I don't know much about anything in this world but I do know how to read The book written in his eyes. The way he looks at me.

Tahereh Mafi

#59. If you just read Joseph Campbell, who has written amazing books on mythology and religion, they all do come together at some point. There are some of the greatest stories that there have ever been in the Bible. All you have to do is read the book of Maccabi, it's like a film script.

Mel Gibson

#60. The way I saw the characters these things just happened naturally. At the same time - and I know it's probably not apparent when you read the book - but I really tried to hold back because I didn't want it to become a cartoon.

Donald Ray Pollock

#61. Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, its still okay to feel responsible for someone else's. Live and to learn.

Michael J. Fox

#62. I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.

Shia Labeouf

#63. What I had come to love about book club (besides the fabulous desserts and free liquor) was how in hearing so many opinions about the same book, your own opinion expanded, as if you'd read the book several times instead of just once.

Lorna Landvik

#64. Did you read the book or did you just read the words in order?

Gail Giles

#65. She felt moved to read the book in secret and solitude, though none of the others had done so, - to hide it from view at the sound of approaching footsteps.

Kate Chopin

#66. When panic sets in, my advice is to fast and read the Book of Mormon for at least a half hour.

John Wright

#67. Read the book: All the good people go. Only monsters remain.

Jonathan Friesen

#68. Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

John Green

#69. He claimed he had read the book so many times that the words had fallen out of it and the pages were all blank so he had to read the book to put the words back in or the book would be forlorn and naked.

Brian Doyle

#70. No one ever knows if a book is good until they read the book.

Victor LaValle

#71. And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever.

Leo Tolstoy

#72. I knew the term Stepford Wife, and I knew what that meant. I never read the book, and I think before I started filming I watched the movie. I thought it was very dated.

Glenn Close

#73. I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

Virginia Woolf

#74. I wanted to do something new. The world is becoming a global village and we have to understand these different cultures. There is a Danish culture, an Israeli culture and so on. So if you want to go to Denmark, then read the book.

Enock Maregesi

#75. If I say I don't want to read the book, I don't want to read the book.

Gillian Flynn

#76. I dont like any of them, because they don't read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his story. Anthony Quinn played in The Lond Wait and he didn't read the book either.

Mickey Spillane

#77. Years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat.

Dennis Weaver

#78. The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

Toni Morrison

#79. For those of you haven't read the book, it's being published tomorrow

David Frost

#80. For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.

Salma Hayek

#81. I saw a film today, oh boy,
The English army had just won the war,
A crowd of people turned away,
But I just had to look, having read the book ...

The Beatles

#82. As a storyteller, you also don't want to make people feel like they're left out, like other people who have read the book have an interior knowledge of this show, and the degree of difficulty in watching it is much higher.

Damon Lindelof

#83. I had read the book 1421 - The Year China Discovered the World by Gavin Menzies and become intrigued by his perspective on the era. Menzies, of course,

J. Maarten Troost

#84. I think a successful adaptation rises or falls on the work presented. If people need to read the book to understand the play, I didn't complete the job.

Jeff Britting

#85. You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

Mary J. Blige

#86. Our audience is all the girls who made Britney a huge star. Those are the girls who bought the book. I didn't read the book at first. I read the script just to see what I would think of the script and I really liked it.

Virginia Madsen

#87. Love and Loyalty, run deeper than blood. Love that quote even though I haven't read the book.

Richelle Mead

#88. I'd love to do an action film. I'd love to do a film based on a book series; I love to read the book and then go see the movie. I'd love to have a show on Disney; I love working for them. And I'm also working on getting some new music out of my own.

Katherine McNamara

#89. Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands.

Hugh Nibley

#90. There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, 'Did you get an erection?' If the answer is 'Yes' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.

W. H. Auden

#91. 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

#92. When you want to read the book, come read the book. When you want to come talk to me and be my friend, come talk to me.

Lil B

#93. Read. The book is still the greatest manmade machine of all - not the car, not the TV, not the smartphone.

Ken Burns

#94. I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.

Mary MacLane

#95. I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential autobiographies.

Dan Rather

#96. Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun.

Groucho Marx

#97. I am not the most annoying person to bring to a movie 'cause I basically hold it in and write about it later or tweet about it. The most annoying people to bring to movies, I think we all agree, are those who read the book first.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#98. I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.

Barry Corbin

#99. What are you reading?" Owen asks.
"Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died."
"You ought to read the book from end to beginning," Owen jokes. "That way, no one dies, and it's always a happy ending.

Gabrielle Zevin

#100. When I read the book [The Adderall Diaries] I loved it, and I maybe had an inkling that there was a lot of good material in there. I didn't quite know at the time how to adapt it into a film, but I hoped I would figure it out one day.

James Franco