Read Quotes

When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.

We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.

My parents would read those books to me as well but they used to make me starving when I was a kid because they were always eating ham sandwiches with the crusts off and drinking ginger beer.

I'm just writing a story that I want to read.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

I certainly don't read coverage of me, I read what else is going on that I need to know about to do my job.

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.

I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.

These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.

When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.

If I read or listened to critics of our music, I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.

Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.