Read Quotes

My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.

You know, I don't read the blogs, or go on the internet, and I really just don't know what people are saying because... well I guess I'm afraid to.

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.

The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil.

I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.

I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.

I read books more than I go out.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

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