Read Quotes

The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.

Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it.

Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read.

It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow.

Most of the auditions I went on, I passed up the projects because I just wasn't interested. When I read A Knight's Tale, that was that. I knew I wanted to do this movie.

The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.

You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.

Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.

Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read.

If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.

Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

I'm not well read.

Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true.

I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.

When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

You never know when you read a script how it's going to turn out because so much depends on the collaboration between people. If I'd been in some of the movies I turned down, maybe they wouldn't have been a success.