Top 1200 Well-Read Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I feel like Mills and Boon saved my life. It was a way of not living. I read a lot of other books as well, but they were definitely the best for just switching my brain off, not having to deal with reality.

Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.

To those who ask if I have read their book, I reply: I have not yet read Homer.

I still don't think I've ever read a Nancy Drew book; I probably read three or four 'Hardy Boys' books when I was 10, 11, 12, and I didn't love them at the time. Even then, they felt dated to me, like the word chum - 'my chum and I.' However, the 'Encyclopedia Brown' books, I read all of them.

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and re-read them...digest them...a student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by 20 books he has merely skimmed.

When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.

It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.

I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.

There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.

My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.

I travel a fair amount, read on the plane, and I read fast.

I read Plato's 'Republic.' I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.

I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read.

I read The Flash. I read Green Lantern. I loved Batman.

I look at some young commentators who sit down with piles of notes, and of course, what are you going to do if you've spent hours preparing all this stuff? You're going to bloody well read it out. Boring!

I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself.

I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.

I have read the 'Divergent' series. I obviously read 'Harry Potter.'

The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish the short story, print it out, then put it in a drawer and write other things. When you're ready, pick it up and read it, as if you've never read it before. If there are things you aren't satisfied with as a reader, go in and fix them as a writer: that's revision.

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.

I was born a Roman Catholic but had never tried to read the Bible. Now, I ensure that I read it completely.

I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.

Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports.

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

I don't have time to read a lot. And when I do, I read things that have just the facts.

A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.

For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read.

They pointed out that the friendship between the two artists had always been a byword or whatever you called it. A well-read Egg summed it up by saying that they were like Thingummy and what's-his-name.

Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this moment.

I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole other world in books.

My whole thing is, I collect what I know I want to read, and I have certain bookshelves in my bedroom that contain all the books I haven't read yet.

Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.

My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.

Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book.

I don't really read magazines that much. I read comic books.

Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read.

I used to read a lot of Isaac Asimov and Philip Dick and 'Inland Empire's' one of the earlier books I read!

Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

Would you take anybody's views on Christianity seriously if they hadn't read the New Testament? Of course you wouldn't. So I read the Koran.

I wasn't brave enough to read the R. L. Stine book series when I was younger. But my brother read as many of them as he could.

One of the things I miss most is that I can no longer read, due to age-related macular degeneration. I get regular injections for this, and thankfully these seem to have arrested its progress, but it's still very difficult for me to read. That means it is hard for me to pick up my Bible and read it like I used to, and I miss that very much.

... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think.

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

I do read a lot. I read more than I watch movies.

I only read a book if I feel intuitively led to read it.

I did not read Gone with the Wind, although I've seen the movie, and I read every book on Margaret Mitchell.

Ministers must read. We are required to read not as a luxury but as a necessity.

I'm very fickle when it comes to genre. I read YA, non-fiction, mysteries, romance. I'll read anything that comes with a strong recommendation.