Read Quotes

It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

My name is James Guckert. Well, when you read it, it's always pronounced some other way.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

I do get the comics online I guess but it's such a pain. I'd rather just get them in the paper and read them.

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true.

Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.

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.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution.

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.

I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.

I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.

I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.