Read Quotes

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.

I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.

Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.

Macbeth was the first play I ever read.

I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much.

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.

I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it.