Top 100 Read What Quotes
#1. It was at our library that I found Nancy Drew and fell in love with the genre. I've been grateful ever since for those tolerant, book-loving librarians who allowed a child like me to read what I wanted to read.
Nancy Pickard
#3. The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it's an ad.
Howard Gossage
#4. Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#5. My love life is nobody's business ... if I give it to 40 million people to read, what do I have left when I go home? I'm protective of my personal life that way.
Julianna Margulies
#6. I aspire to be an inspirer, not a mentor. As such it would be fulfilling to know that someone read what I wrote and tailored it creatively to serve positively their divine purpose.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#7. He writes because for him it is a luxury which becomes the more agreeable and more evident, the fewer there are who buy and read what he writes.
Soren Kierkegaard
#8. Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.
Joyce Carol Oates
#9. What's this?" She pulled out a card and held it away from her face. "I can't read what it says." I took it from her and read it aloud.
1. Beeber Bifocal
2. Twenty Mile House
3. Bee
4. Your escape
Fourteen miracles to go.
Maria Semple
#10. And when I think there are people around me who complain they can't find anything good to read. What nonsense ... every month you and I discover a masterpiece.
Laurence Cosse
#11. At ebb tide I wrote a line upon the sand, and gave it all my heart and all my soul. At flood tide I returned to read what I had inscribed and found my ignorance upon the shore.
Khalil Gibran
#13. Life isn't long enough (anymore) to read what I don't enjoy.
Vera Mont
#14. I think spring is inside me. I feel spring awakening, I feel it in my entire body and soul. I have to force myself to act normally. I'm in a state of utter confusion, don't know what to read, what to write, what to do. I only know that I'm longing for something ...
Anne Frank
#15. I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read, or just privileged people read. I want to write a book whose emotional truth people can understand. For me, that's what it's about.
Ann Hood
#16. Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.
Eminem
#17. I was first a reader and without readers what would be the point in writing. For those of you who love a good story, thank you for being willing to read what we writerly folk create.
Michelle Dennis Evans
#18. I don't often know who should read what book. It's a little bit like trying to set people up on a date - a good match is unpredictable and mysterious.
Kristin Cashore
#19. I look at myself and read what people say on the internet and some fans say the club should get rid of me - which shows how fickle some people can be.
Robbie Savage
#20. Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out; they will not read what is too troublesome.
Jan Tschichold
#21. You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.
Ernest Hemingway,
#22. The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask what they believe, just observe what they do.
Bohdi Sanders
#23. But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.
Carla Bruni
#24. Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step.
Mark Helprin
#25. Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
Ben Okri
#26. When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.
Walter Murch
#27. I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.
Chris Ware
#29. Color these fish.
Cut them out.
Punch a hole in the top of each fish.
Put a ribbon through all the holes.
Tie these fish together.
Now read what is written on these fish:
Jesus is a friend.
Jesus gathers friends.
I am a friend of Jesus.
Lydia Davis
#30. Never believe people in this business who say they don't read what's written about them.
Ryan Seacrest
#31. All writers and their readers should stand up and voice their opposition to financial services companies censoring books. Authors should have the freedom to publish legal fiction, and readers should have the freedom to read what they want.
Mark Coker
#32. It was always amusing to be inside Apple and read what journalists said we were doing
Donald A. Norman
#33. I read what you leave in public spaces. The songs you reference. The quotes you quote. I know it's
about me. I can feel you thinking of me. I want to tell you that I know and admit that I feel the same.
But I can't. Not yet.
Pleasefindthis
#34. Death doesn't wait for you to finish a book." "Then read what you can, while you can.
Oliver Bowden
#35. Favoriting tweets has become a form of acknowledging that you've read what someone else has written.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#36. If you watch what people watch and read what people read, you are on the way to get the same results.
Deyth Banger
#37. Looking for a word from the Lord? Believe that he has already spoken, and read what he's already written.
Mark Driscoll
#38. Writing isn't just on the page; it's voices in the reader's head. Read what you write out loud to someone-anyone-and you will catch all kinds of things.
Donna Jo Napoli
#39. Reading brings power to the mind and power brings freedom to the mind. Though you ought to read, read what is noble and worthy of not just your time, but your lifetime!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#40. I wish I could read what she's written there. Instead, I pretend the letters are stars. The words, constellations.
Isaac Marion
#41. I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.
Ricky Jay
#42. I certainly don't read coverage of me, I read what else is going on that I need to know about to do my job.
Hillary Clinton
#43. I began writing late; my first articles and stories were published after I was thirty, and I was motivated by money. Money is not a bad motivation. The need to eat keeps us from laziness, and the fact that someone is willing to pay to read what we write assures us that we have indeed written.
M.V. Carey
#44. One of the most useful and important ways to be able to use your psychic gifts is to learn how to read what's happening in your very own body.
Catherine Carrigan
#45. People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.
Pearl S. Buck
#46. Dance music is Madonna's base. It's what she likes, it's what she listens to. It's not anything other than that. She doesn't read what's on the charts. And if it's on time, great. This is who she is.
Guy Oseary
#47. I want to change the bad boy image that has stuck for a bit because I don't think I am at all how I have been portrayed. I would like that to change because it's awful to hear and read what is said of you.
Luis Suarez
#48. All right, I will read what's in my pocket.
Norton Simon
#49. Love what you read and read what you love!
Lou Kelly
#50. What I would do is a 10-minute short of some kind on video, and if it's good enough, you get it passed around town and just get some attention, so then they'll read what you have.
David Zucker
#51. I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain amount of resilience.
John Ashbery
#52. Readers can read what they want and easily switch to other books, so we're seeing a lot of reading behaviors. Some verticals attract different usage than others. We can spot reading patterns.
Trip Adler
#53. A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly forestall them.
Rudolf Flesch
#54. But one of the great tragedies of life is that you cannot force people to read what they ought, as good as it might be for them.
- Roland Gardner
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Robert Boyczuk
#55. I always squirm when I read what's called 'creative nonfiction,' and the writer is lobbing gobs of emotion and language at the world, hoping some of it will stick.
Stewart O'Nan
#56. If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#57. There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What is poetry in the common sense, but a hearing of such jingling names? I want nothing better than a good word. The name of a thing may easily be more than the thing itself to me.
Henry David Thoreau
#58. I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
Erica Jong
#59. I have no idea whether what I write will be of the remotest interest to anyone else. Some mornings when I read what I wrote the previous day I think it's fairly entertaining; other times I think it's pure rubbish. The main thing is not to take any notice, not to be elated or upset, just keep going.
Maeve Binchy
#60. But to write - that is grief and labor; and to read what one has written - how unlike the story as one saw it; how dull, how spirtless - that is enough to send one weeping to bed.
Winifred Holtby
#61. In those days [1935] I would read what the opposition papers got out, and I'd say to myself, 'What I'm doing just isn't good enough.'
Sylvia Porter
#62. Just a thought.
What sets us above all other life on this planet is our ability to read. What we read can determine our relationship with all other life on this planet.
M.J. Croan
#63. He didn't say that. He read what was given to him in a speech.
Richard Darman
#64. What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we've read? What matters is how we feel, how we see, what we do after reading; whether the street and the clouds and the existence of others mean anything to us; whether reading makes us, physically, more alive.
Gabriel Zaid
#65. Her Uncle Jaime felt that people never read what did not interest them and that if it interested them that meant they were sufficiently mature to read it.
Isabel Allende
#66. I do not understand people who do not read. What are they doing in their free times?
Jamie Dornan
#67. No one will read what I write here, no one will come to help me ... My ship is rudderless, it's driven by the wind blowing into the nethermost regions of death.
Franz Kafka
#68. I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture.
Jayne Ann Krentz
#69. Fantasy has had some problems with being too repetitive, in my opinion. I try to read what other people are doing - and say, 'How can I add to this rather than just recycle it? How can I stand on Tolkien's shoulders rather than stand tied to his kneecaps?'
Brandon Sanderson
#70. If there's one overarching theme in "Guys Read", it's the simple but important message: "read what you like, when you like, whatever that happens to be.
School Library Journal
#71. As you become known, the demands on you are such that you get less and less time to do the things you want to do. But if there are no demands, then that means nobody wants to read what you're doing anyway, so you're stuck.
Iain Sinclair
#72. Read what you enjoy, not what bores you.
Nick Hornby
#73. I'd love for readers to read what books are about so that if they are expecting happy endings in dark horror novels, they won't reach for the Vallium or something worse!
Carole Gill
#74. I'm out there to clean the plate. Once they've read what I've written on a subject, I want them to think, 'That's it!' I think the highest aspiration people in our trade can have is that once they've written a story, nobody will ever try it again.
Richard Ben Cramer
#76. I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.
Flannery O'Connor
#77. Today, we need to listen more carefully. I read what people say on Twitter, my friends on Path, in addition to formal media. I look for patterns, and then I post questions back to my network.
Padmasree Warrior
#78. I mean, do you really think Paul Krugman is checking his Twitter account every day to read what I write? Of course not. Every other day maybe, but not every day.
Michael Showalter
#79. People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.
Tatyana Tolstaya
#80. To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.
Virginia Woolf
#81. Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy fate shall be. What thou art now, so shall thou be. The world's delight I followed with a heart Unsatisfied: ashes am I, and dust.
Alcuin
#82. Usually I spend a long while working alone before letting anyone read what I've written.
Anthony Marra
#83. O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.
Virginia Woolf
#84. Most of my life, I read what is said on IMDB. The fans on the Raw is War board make the most sense of any Internet fan, apart from the one or two that create second accounts to bash me. Keep the board alive-uh. Paul Levesque
Bill Vaughan
#85. I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me because it's not their profession to do that.
David Bowie
#86. In response to how he checked the weather, "I just whip out my blue card with a hole in it and read what it says: 'When color of card matches color of sky, FLY!'"
Gordon Baxter
#87. I feel like there are things I can relate to in every character. But I feel like when you read a script, you don't get to see the definition behind someone, you just get to read what the person goes through and find a place to come from to make it real.
Martin Starr
#88. You read what Disraeli had to say. I don't remember what he said. He said something. He's no longer with us.
Bob Dole
#89. Daredevil nature as a young man. When I read what William Roth had written, I sighed. So that was where my own two boys had gotten the trait that was turning their mother's hair gray.
Katherine Paterson
#90. Boys think girls are like books. If the cover doesn't catch their eye, they won't bother to read what's inside.
Ella Frank
#91. I find Facebook absolutely fascinating because I don't think there's ever been any one source that had so much information about each of us - who we talk to, who our friends are, what books we read, what we're buying, what movies we saw, what our travel is.
Rick Smolan
#92. Remember, you're reading for pleasure. If you pick up a book and don't like it, put it down. Never read what you think you should read. Never feel inadequate if you don't like what you're 'supposed' to like. Reading is personal. Yours is the only opinion that matters.
Philip Riley
#93. My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.
Malcolm Gladwell
#94. Sometimes you want to read what people write about you, obviously.
Ansel Elgort
#95. A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I think A journalist says: let me tell you a story.
Gideon Haigh
#96. The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that something has a double meaning, don't pause. Don't put on a leery vocal expression if you know what I mean on radio. Don't sort of do anything other than read it.
Humphrey Lyttelton
#97. I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends." My reaction was, "I wonder who said that; I wish I had." In the next proof-sheets I read (what now stands), "It was Littlewood who said ... "
John Edensor Littlewood
#98. I would never tell myself, you have to write 20 pages today or something. But I do try to show up. Read what I wrote, fix things.
Celeste Ng
#99. I hope girls read what I say in interviews - they should just be themselves.
Taylor Momsen
#100. Once 'Walk Two Moons' received the Newbery Medal, I decided to write full-time. Partly because there seemed to be an audience out there who wanted to read what I wanted to write, and partly because I could now support myself financially through writing.
Sharon Creech
