She Reads Quotes

#1. Tom made her watch all three movies one afternoon," Justine says. "I wonder if Tara's ever forgiven you."
The phone beeps again and she reads, "I want those ten hours of my life back.

Melina Marchetta

#2. You want to know how moral she is?" His tone made me frown. "What do you mean?" "If she chases me any harder, she and I will wind up playing a scene from that Bible she reads. The scene between Potiphar's wife and Joseph.

Octavia E. Butler

#3. She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.

Thorne Smith

#4. Really, is there a ruder thing to do than put someone down based on what she reads? It's a classist, obnoxious, and utterly grotesque use of energy.

Sarah Wendell

#5. I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads.

Sandra Cisneros

#6. Marah will come looking for me one day, Kate had said, pressing the journal into my hands. Be with her when she reads it. And my boys ... show them these words when they can't remember me.

Kristin Hannah

#7. When he actually comes, he brings her a book containing white paper, as if it were a sign of her salvation, and she reads a dedication
something about people who have lost hope but start to swim in the whiteness of these leaves and perhaps find a new beginning with their first pen stroke.

Unica Zurn

#8. There are so many things to know and learn. She reads ... and finds comfort in the fact that she will never run out of books.

Janice Y.K. Lee

#9. See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.

Rebecca Wells

#10. Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.

Cornelia Funke

#11. Mom is a compulsive reader. She reads for pleasure, she reads to edify herself, but more often than not, she reads because she can't help it. I understand. The minute I find myself sitting still, I start rummaging around for printed material.
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Michael Perry

#12. Take no heed of her," explained Jones apologetically. "She reads a lot of books.

Jasper Fforde

#13. When the bespangled Miss Charisse wraps her phenomenal legs around [Fred] Astaire, she can be forgiven everything - even the fact that she reads her lines as if she learned them phonetically.

Pauline Kael

#14. I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#15. The oldest woman in the village, Paciencia,
predicts the weather from the flight of birds:
Today it will rain toads, she says,
squinting her face into a mystery of wrinkles
as she reads the sky - tomorrow,
it will be snakes.

Judith Ortiz Cofer

#16. If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.

Nicole Krauss

#17. She reads, and I read her. And that's how I spend the next few weeks. Each day, she speaks a few more words to me, and each day I find myself caring more than I should.

Jay McLean

#18. She unfolds the piece of paper in her hands and she reads again the story written on it.

Ali Smith

#19. With my spyglass I can observe a woman who is reading on a terrace in the valley," I told her. "I wonder if the books she reads are calming or upsetting."
"How does the woman seem to you? Calm or upset?"
"Calm."
"Then she reads upsetting books.

Italo Calvino

#20. Juliet, none of your margin notes! Sophie, dear, don't let her drink coffee while she reads. And off we'd go with new books to read.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#21. I'll always be with you, inside and out," she reads. "Through hard times and helpless ones, through love, through doubt.

Jessica Sorensen

#22. She reads books like one would breath air to fill up and live.

Anonymous

#23. Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.

Siri Hustvedt

#24. In certain fiction, she perceives truths that she rarely finds in nonfiction; therefore, in her quest to better understand the world and the meaning of her life, she reads those novels that suggest a world of wonders, dark and light, forever unfolding for eyes willing to see.

Dean Koontz

#25. The feeling, all encompassing, safe and warm like a blanket permanently draped over her shoulders, follows her around. She takes it into the shower, to meals with her mother and sister, to work as she reads out the news script, her voice never faltering.

Zainab Omaki

#26. Unfortunately I'm not on the same wavelength as Maria yet in the literary sphere. She writes me such good, natural letters, but she reads ... Rilke, Bergengruen, Binding, Wiechert; I regard the last three as being below our level and the first as being decidedly unhealthy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#27. Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

Jasper Fforde

#28. My friend says she's smart. She reads a book to fall asleep.

Nicholaa Spencer

#29. She folds the pages of the books she reads when she wants to remember something important. Her favorite books are accordions, testaments to an endless search for meaning.

Gary Shteyngart

#30. I am not the type of person who believes everything she reads, but I like to look at photos and see what people are wearing.

Jessica Simpson

#31. And will knowing what she reads make you know who she is?"
"Can you think of a better way to tell?

Donna Leon

#32. I very much hope that when my wife reads my writings so she reads it as if she is a character and not the real one. Sometimes she takes it too personally.

Sayed Kashua

#33. She reads the front of the card out loud. "Make it stop." Holy shit. She stares at it for a moment, repeating the phrase. "Make it stop? What in the hell does that even mean?" she asks.

Colleen Hoover

#34. My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and she's all, 'No, I mean a real doctor.' She reads my books, but she says they give her a headache.

Brian Greene

#35. Her soul belongs to words and books. Every time she reads, she is home.

Anonymous

#36. A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.

Robert Breault

#37. In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?

John Irving

#38. When a woman reads a romance novel, she is putting her own pleasure first. That small act of rebellion is perceived as a threat to the status quo. It's also why this eternally popular and profitable genre has been scorned, ridiculed and dismissed.

Maya Rodale

#39. What kind of girl reads Wealth of Nations for fun?"
She closed the book and looked at the front jacket, then at him. "It's a shame really. I had nothing else to read. I left all my Barbie comic books at home.

Jill Barnett

#40. Marry someone who flatters you. Because I've written 80 books since 'War Horse' but when my wife reads one, all she says is, 'It's quite good, but it's not as good as 'War Horse,' is it?'

Michael Morpurgo

#41. What a women reads makes her more attractive and more elegant than what she wears.

Carine Roitfeld

#42. The only authority my mother recognized was God's. God is love and the Bible is truth--everything else was up for debate. She taught me to challenge authority and question the system. The only way it backfired on her was that I constantly challenged and questioned her.

Trevor Noah

#43. Un homme qui lit, ou qui pense, ou qui calcule, appartient a' l'espe' ce et non au sexe; dans ses meilleurs moments, il e chappe me me a' l'humain. A person who reads or thinks or calculates, belongs to a kind and not to a gender; in his or her best moments, he or she escapes being human.

Stephanie Crayencour

#44. We've all met a certain type of spiritual person. She's a wonderful person. She loves the Lord. She prays and reads the Bible all the time. But all she thinks about is herself. She's not a selfish person. But she's always at the center of everything she's doing.

Eugene H. Peterson

#45. Margot Livesey, my dear friend, reads all the drafts of what I write, and I read hers. We have an intense working relationship. I've been really lucky to know her. She's a great reader and teacher as well as an astonishingly good writer.

Andrea Barrett

#46. I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. ACHILLES, it reads. And beside it, PATROCLUS.
"Go," she says. "He waits for you.

Madeline Miller

#47. It has often been said that we have but one life to live; that is nonsense. If one reads fiction he or she can live a thousand lives, in many parts of the world or in outer space.

Louis L'Amour

#48. Sadie was like that, one of those people untouched by trend or fashion, comfortable building her own world out of what she liked, from tunes and styles and reads that could be so ancient they were cobwebbed, up through to things so new they barley existed yet.

Michael Grant

#49. One of my friends at the Compound has a photographic memory. Everything she ever sees, reads, or hears, she remembers forever in perfect detail.

Kasie West

#50. My type of humor is almost pure identification. A housewife reads my column and says, 'But that's happened to ME! I know just what she's talking about!

Erma Bombeck

#51. If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

Jennifer Weiner

#52. She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.

Vladimir Nabokov

#53. If one of my kids reads a book for school and I can have a conversation with her about the book and I sense that she gets what the book is about, then it doesn't really matter to me if she gets an A on the paper.

Michael J. Fox

#54. Angelina Jolie's older brother James Haven, the one she made out with, has a license plate on his SUV that reads Shiloh. Maybe it's not that weird. After all, he could be the father.

Chelsea Handler

#55. It's tough to stay married. My wife says no because she's tired then stays up and reads her book.

Rodney Dangerfield

#56. She wears a shirt that fits tight to her tits and reads: I never received my acceptance letter from Hogwarts, so I'm leaving the Shire to become a Jedi!

Alexa Riley

#57. Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.

D.H. Lawrence

#58. Saskia's bedroom is messy and cramped, but in an eccentric, smart way. Books are stacked all over the floor, but her bookshelf is empty, suggesting that she is the kind of person who reads seventy-five books at once.

Greg Baxter

#59. We walk together to the kitchen. On these mornings when my brother makes breakfast, and my father's hand skims my hair as he reads the newspaper, and my mother hums as she clears the table - it is on these mornings that I feel guiltiest for wanting to leave them.

Veronica Roth

#60. Throughout my college years, I'd watch my sister squeal every Christmas as she unwrapped another 'Buffy' DVD set. I didn't know much about the series, but I was filled with that obnoxious self-importance that comes from having decided to be an Academic Who Reads Serious Things.

Marie Rutkoski

#61. I didn't worry about leaving Jay with Pagan this time. I was sure
he'd get the message when he read his ticket.
After all when a guy reads,
She's mine. That's your one and only warning.
Dank Walker
He knows if he isn't ready for a fight he can't win then he'd better back the fuck off.

Abbi Glines

#62. My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.

Karl Philipp Moritz

#63. Oh, here's a clever one. Do you remember this question from the first test? It reads, 'What's wrong with this statement?' And do you know what Constance wrote in reply? She wrote, 'What's wrong with you?

Trenton Lee Stewart

#64. Roy received my comments with a forced
smile. "Hardy, didn't I warn you not to date a woman who reads?"
Hardy seemed amused by my outspokenness. "Keeps the arguing to a minimum," he replied. "No point in trying when I know she's going to win.

Lisa Kleypas

#65. I suppose a book is still a book, even if no one but the author and his wife reads it," she said.

John Wyndham

#66. RIDER FOR THE FUNERAL OF AMY SCHUMER: . . . The actual body of AMY SCHUMER should be propped up on a chair in the northwest corner of the room, wearing aviator sunglasses and her trusted snow hat that reads, 'No Coffee, No Workee," a motto in life that she will continue to stand by in the afterlife.

Amy Schumer