Top 100 To Read Quotes
#1. I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.
Jennifer Chiaverini
#2. She would sit with picture books in her little lap before she even knew how to read, studying the writing as though all the mystery and wonder of the world were contained in the strange, indecipherable symbols.
Molly Ringwald
#3. One thing my teacher taught me about getting psychic information with my intuition was to say, "Just show me the truth of this situation, God." That helps us to be able to read it more clearly.
Echo Bodine
#4. I think humor is key [to a successful middle-grade novel]. Kids like to read for entertainment, and the best way to entertain kids is to make them laugh.
Jeff Kinney
#5. People say, 'All my son will read is 'Captain Underpants,' or 'My son is crazy about shark books, is that O.K.?' I want to be the person to say, 'Yeah, that's really O.K., as long as he's motivated to want to read.'
Jon Scieszka
#6. Write the kind of book you'd like to read. If it's written well, someone else will like it to.
Thalia Lake
#7. I will always find something that I want to try and become better at. I always love to spend more time with my friends, more time with my family, my extended family. I always want to read more books.
Connie Nielsen
#8. Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original
Charles Spurgeon
#9. And there was a tree stump outside the Black Barn everyone called 'Dave's stump' because for over three years, until a few weeks before our arrival, he'd sat on it to read and write, sometimes even when it was raining or cold.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#10. What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?
Virginia Woolf
#11. So many directors say nothing beautifully, and so many others say great and profound things but have no idea how to read a light meter or arrange a shot.
George Cukor
#12. Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written.
Anthony Marra
#13. I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is what's in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or two.
Karen Thompson Walker
#14. I done something bad, it was to believe that to read a book you must be a stupid guy. No people which read they are clever - the guy who said this is stupid guy!
Deyth Banger
#15. A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else, in order to learn from the lives of great men.
Georges F. Doriot
#16. For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.
Emma Donoghue
#17. Any academic skill is quickly achievable if charged with clear purpose and an appeal to enthusiastic self-interest. Tarzan of the Apes only needed about twenty minutes to figure out how to read the beautiful Jane Porter's cursive writing.
T.K. Naliaka
#18. It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.
Ira Glass
#19. A fine book, in the perfect setting, when there's all the time in the world to read it: Life holds greater joys, but none come to mind just now.
Mary Roach
#20. Until the building of Solomon's temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy to read between the lines that even after that date it was more a pious wish than a practical demand.
Julius Wellhausen
#21. Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.
Blake Judd
#22. Letters ... People do not write the truth; they write the things that, they believe, you would like to read.
Henning Mankell
#23. A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.
Brigham Young
#24. More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers.
Joe Murray
#25. The easiest-to-read Bibles are called paraphrases. These can be very helpful, especially for young or first-time readers of the Bible. The best known of this type is The Living Bible.
Jeffrey Geoghegan
#26. It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
William Osler
#27. I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just don't take that into account in schools on those things like required reading lists. 'Cause that was my experience, say, with my son, who had to read 'Little House on the Prairie' when he was in third grade.
Jon Scieszka
#28. In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a book. I've never had a very lively literary curiosity, and it has sometimes seemed to me that I am not really a literary fellow at all. Except that I write for a living.
E.B. White
#29. The moment you first encounter a particular book is the right time to read it. To avoid missing that moment, I recommend that you keep your collection small.
Marie Kondo
#32. I love to read; I love to listen; I love to talk
in that order.
C.L. Gammon
#33. I often think, no one wants to read this. No one wants to hear this. My own work makes me cringe sometimes, cringe in a "there's nothing I can do because it had to come out like this" kind of way.
Randall Mann
#34. A writer learns that easy to read is hard to write ...
C.J. Heck
#35. The Quest for Prosperity is an important book. Written with verve and clarity, it reflects a deep understanding of global economic issues, and proposes practical solutions that anyone concerned with the plight of the world's poor would be wise to read.
Robert Fogel
#36. Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.
Derek Jacobi
#37. You know when you're writing, and it's just you and the computer screen, and you never think that anyone is ever going to read it ... you're able to say private things when you're writing.
James St. James
#38. I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.
Dax Shepard
#39. Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#40. I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicolons. It's hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony, too. I don't like people saying one thing and meaning the other.
Kurt Vonnegut
#41. In life, as in breakfast cereal, it is always best to read the instructions on the box.
Terry Pratchett
#42. If you think a child is going to be your accessory ... it's not like a micro pig. It's not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.
Tori Amos
#43. It was only then that he met Villefort's dull gaze, that look peculiar to men of the law who do not want anyone to read their thoughts, and so make their eyes into unpolished glass. The look reminded him that he was standing before Justice, a figure of grim aspect and manners.
Alexandre Dumas
#44. I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Bill Gates
#45. 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
#46. I don't read reviews, and I try not to read articles about me. It taints your outlook: if you believe the good things, you've got to believe the bad things, too.
Bonnie Langford
#47. To read a work one must also read the underlying infrastructure to make legible its aesthetic and political composition. This ability to read a phenomenon based on the infrastructures of resonance around it is what I refer to as seeing power. The
Nato Thompson
#48. I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read in, or be read to.
Eudora Welty
#49. Reading as an adult, for pleasure, is infinitely better than reading the stuff assigned to you back in school. You get to choose what you want to read.
Lisa Bloom
#50. 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
#51. For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
Ben Jonson
#52. Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.
Patty Murray
#53. My pappy told me, 'When you read horror, it's best to read with the lights on.' I found it helps for most other kinds of books too.
P.K. Vandcast
#55. There's so many good books, but I'm always like, "I'm sorry, I have five more Faulkners to read, I can't be bothered." Most of the time when you try, you fall on the wrong one.
Lou Doillon
#56. Stories come alive in the telling. ( ... )They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them, they could begin to change. They could take root in the imagination and transform the reader. Stories wanted to be read.
John Connolly
#57. He felt overwelmed when he thought of all the books he hadn't read, all the books he wanted to read, and all the books he would want to read. Not to mention all the books that he hadn't heard of.
Those dismayed him the most.
Kristine Grayson
#58. I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.
Dean Koontz
#59. I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
Gore Vidal
#60. The greatest writers are the ones not afraid to share their heartbreak and pain for the world to read.
They are fearless and freely in sharing their heart to heal other wounds with their story.
Tamyara Brown
#61. 'Modelland' has always been a part of my mind and my heart. I'm excited that you'll be able to read about this magical world that's been living in my dreams for so many years.
Tyra Banks
#62. I often think of that when I hear people say that they haven't time to read.
David McCullough
#63. I was like a mutant when I was a boy. I learned to read when I was four years old; it was like a miracle.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#64. Be. So I follow the Lindy effect as a guide in selecting what to read: books that have been around for ten years will be around for ten more; books that have been around for two millennia should be around for quite a bit of time, and so forth.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#65. An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.
William Labov
#66. Want to read my mind to see what I'm thinking about?" "Nay. Tell me," he urged as he nuzzled her neck. "You, our future, and our love.
Donna Grant
#67. A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to.
Swami Vivekananda
#68. Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.
Wilbur Smith
#69. 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
#70. I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it.
Blake Bailey
#71. I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
Larry Wall
#72. Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine is a warp into the middle of a wildly imaginative mythology and I'm itching to read more.
Rick Remender
#73. Grace is a dangerous topic because the Bible is a dangerous book. It wrecks people, it offends people, and it's tough to read from the suburbs.
Preston Sprinkle
#74. I went to Australia from England when I was right at that age when you learn to read. It's a very confronting thing, traveling halfway around the world and having a mother who was deeply unhappy at ending up in Australia, so you look for some way to find comfort, I guess, and I found it in books.
Terry Hayes
#75. As she continued to read to him, a look of peace relaxed across his features. It was a peace that Betsy knew transcended loyalties to nations and demonstrated they were subjects before one king - the King of Kings.
Elaine Marie Cooper
#76. At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.
Jonathan Kozol
#77. I got some pilot scripts and auditioned for a couple other ones, too. It was just a standard audition, where I kept going in to read and went up the ladder, in terms of people who you're performing for during those auditions. Each step of the way, I was happy with that level of audition.
Tim Kang
#78. I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out of all the books that there were to read in the library. I was keen on reading stuff that took me to other places.
Terry Pratchett
#79. My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
Gale Gordon
#80. Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
William Golding
#81. The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
Charles Caleb Colton
#83. The chinese yunjae fans are very kind. They sent me and Yunho links to fanfictions. *giggles* They were 'fun' to read.
Jaejoong
#84. Don't just teach your children to read ...
Teach them to question what they read.
Teach them to question everything.
George Carlin
#85. If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.
Ray Bradbury
#86. Do you like to read?" Christine asked. "That's what we do when we come up here. That's our idea of relaxation.
Cheryl Strayed
#87. In adolescence students are suddenly turned loose on books worth reading, but generally don't know how to read them.
Martin Buber
#88. There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.
G.K. Chesterton
#89. I try to read writers who are better than me because it inspires me to be better.
Jojo Moyes
#90. I didn't want to read French or write it; it was like a boycott, a rejection.
Etel Adnan
#91. One of the most important elements of my identity is my identity as a reader. I love to read - really, if I'm honest with myself, it's practically the only activity that I truly love to do.
Gretchen Rubin
#93. And so I had to turn corners inside-out with my eyes and to read the third side of a book's page, seeking in futility to gaze at what I could then touch with none of my senses.
Thomas Ligotti
#94. On no account allow a Vogon to read poetry at you.
Douglas Adams
#95. I do still read comics since I started writing for DC, but nowhere near as much as I used to, and I'm finding now that it's becoming harder to read comics as a consumer, so I think I'll have to make the call there and stop reading them.
Karen Traviss
#96. If a child wants to read 'Twilight' over Middlemarch, they should be encouraged - the important thing is to get them reading in the first place.
Malorie Blackman
#97. I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
Daddy Yankee
#98. If you want to become a better writer, you have to write. But you also have to read.
Kami Garcia
#99. Good writing should help us see the world in new ways, it should crack open our generosity towards each other. That's what I hope my work does anyway. I want someone to read it and know that they aren't alone in the universe. I want my words to act as connective tissue.
Patrick Hicks
#100. They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity allowed him to comprehend. That is the glory of the Puritan fathers.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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