Read Quotes

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.

I've said to others that there were places I had forgotten about that were just so powerful. I've read the Gospels many times, but it's been a while since I've read through a whole book.

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

No one wants to read a math book.

I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.

I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.

I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill.

When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.

I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live.

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

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

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

I've signed thousands of documents, but never read them.

I don't read Science Fiction.

I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

I cared enough to read and look at and worry about the questions.

I have friends who read my books in Greek.