Top 1200 Well-Read Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

I read James Joyce's short story 'The Dead,' and I love that movie for many reasons. It was the last film I made with my father, and it's emotional for me as well as a movie I'm proud of.

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

I read like a wolf eats. I read myself to sleep every night.

When you mention the word ideology, everyone has communism in the back of their minds, which was an entirely well formulated ideology and statement of belief. You read the Communist Manifesto and you know what the core of it is.

I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but a small matter whether you read with anyone or not. I did not read with anyone. Get the books, and read and study them till you understand them in their principal features; and that is the main thing. It is of no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. I read at New Salem, which never had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places.

I never really read a character before that I connected with more than Peeta. So, for me, if I couldn't get that job I was like, 'Well, if I can't play practically myself in a movie, what can I play?

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

I encourage people to read by encouraging them to read whatever they want.

In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.

The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.

I try to read as a reader and also read as a writer. I mean, they're not so different.

If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane.

I don't read liner notes and stuff, and I don't read articles very often.

I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

Never read Who Moved My Cheese in the workplace when you can read The Joy of Not Working.

I was too shy to do anything but read, but there was nobody to tell me what to read.

Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.

Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read.

I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

And write what you love - dont feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.

I'm a boring guy. I don't play golf. I read, but how many books can I read?

You know, an audition usually is you come in and read the scene and if you're lucky, you get to read it twice.

I read my sister's diary when I was 7. She was, I think, 13. It was awful to read it.

I not only read Raymond Chandler but read all the crime fiction classics. I was hooked.

If you read to me I could tell you everything that was read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?

Thats usually what I gravitate to, I read The Perfect Storm, then I read Into Thin Air .

Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that.

I don't even read the papers. I read 'USA Today' because it has color photos.

There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read.

I never really read a character before that I connected with more than Peeta. So, for me, if I couldn't get that job I was like, 'Well, if I can't play practically myself in a movie, what can I play?'

I didn't read comics as a kid - though, obviously, I've read a lot since.

I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.

He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.

A lot of the times you read something and you don't realize that you are going to have to do the things that you read.

Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.

I've not chosen to learn to read print. I can read simple words but it's so tedious.

It's not like most people read anymore. Well, not unless the book has a wizard school or a hot vampire. And, as a Kari Kngsley expert, I'm absolutely certain your life has neither of those things.

Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.

We need to discern what it is that requires reflection in our lives and in what we read and how we read it.

Well, first of all, let's go right to it. We're going to balance the budget. We should live within our own means, and we should read the bills and work with the American people.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

I was under the impression that if you've read one vampire series for young adults, you've read them all.

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

If you read three books a day you couldn't read all the poetry that's being published.

I had read the 'Wonder Woman' comic books when I was a child; I was much more interested in those than I was in 'Betty and Veronica,' even though I liked those as well.

I read a whole lot as a child, and, of course, I still read children's books.

Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

i love to read and you should read percy kackson & the olympians the last one the best

Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read; what I haven't read.

Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.