Top 1200 Good Reads Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.

Nobody reads a reference book to be amused, much less charmed.

My ideal reader is somebody who reads my poems out loud.

If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.

All I've ever really done is page 3 in The Sun, and not every man reads that.

No one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers.

The head coach don't want no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses.

If you hear a man rail at the Bible, you can usually conclude that he never reads it.

He who reads the Bible in translation is like a man who kisses his bride through a veil.

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.

An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.

I don't think a baker reads an awful lot about bread.

The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.

No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

I would be honored if someone reads my books and it inspires them to write their own work.

The headlines are critically important. The majority of the public reads little else when deciding whether or not they are interested.

Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil

If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

Everyone who reads me is someone I'd like to hang out with.

The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it.

Critics don't sell records, unfortunately. No one reads what they write anyway.

I am someone that follows the news and reads newspapers yet what do you believe and what don't you.

Everyone reads the same words in a book but has a very clear picture of their own.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

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

I don't think Trump reads. If he does, my guess is he's reading autobiographies of ... I wonder if he's read Mein Kampf.

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

One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering

Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.

My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.

You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him.

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

A poem, once it's written, is meant to be read with the inner voice of the person who reads it.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

I'm famously secretive about my work. Nobody reads my books till they're finished.

If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.

The driver on the highway is safe not when He reads the signs, but when He obeys them.

In college, I was making a lot of presnap reads. It was much easier.

My life reads more like Proust than a tabloid.

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.

There will come a time when nobody reads my books and no one remembers who I was. And in the meantime, I'll do it my way.

A lot of books are sold and given away as presents. But who actually reads and enjoy reading?

I don't claim to have all the answers; after all, I'm just a comedian who reads a lot.

I have no trouble saying, as the copy reads, about how caring nurses are, because it's true.

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

I dinna trust him," said Slightly Mad Angus. "He reads books an' such.

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.

When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once.

I remember seeing stories on Wattpad with five million reads and thinking, 'That must be incredible.'

There is no way for me to replicate for you what a sentence reads like for a Chinese reader.

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.