Read Quotes

Life is a poem most people never read.

Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.

In quiet moments, I love to read.

I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. --Mallory Pike

The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.

Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them.

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.

Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

I was raised on the good book Jesus Till I read between the lines Now I don't believe I ever wanna see the morning

Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it.

I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read a book, I feel like I am getting two years of life experiences.

Americans love to read about violence.

I can read and speak Hindi quite well now and that's quite an achievement considering I didn't know the language at all when I came down here.

I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.

A book has to be easy to open and you don't have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.

I love to get books, because I love to read.

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.

And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.

I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I’m going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don’t remember reading.

I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too.

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

I play video games a lot... I love to read... I enjoy spending time with my husband and daughter, who are my most favorite people in the world.

I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.

My guiltiest pleasure is reading a novel with a glass of wine. I love to read voraciously. I always have. And I love to lose myself in a good book.

I love to read about healthy eating and preach to my husband, who doesn't listen. Now I'm trying to teach it to my daughters.

My wife and I love to read. Were going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.

Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me.

I love to read the way people love to watch television.

And you love to read, you love to escape, right?

I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

Yeah, I can read music and I know the names of chords.

In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't take their literature literally.

the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982

I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.

Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.

Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.

I write for the same reason I read: because it's all there is for me.

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

There is much to discover that's not on the back cover!

This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed.

I realise people exist who don't read. But it's like I knew there were people who didn't breathe or eat: I can't imagine a life like that.