All Quotes

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
‐‐ Martin Lewis Perl

I read everything from comics to magazines to fiction - I learned to read in English, years before being able to speak a word of it, by reading 'National Geographic.'
‐‐ Alvaro Enrigue

I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important.
‐‐ Aleksandar Hemon

I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or I'll just read some Mary Oliver - this is a book that was given to me for Christmas. No particular genre. And I read in French, and I read in German, and I read in English. I love to see how other people use language.
‐‐ Jessye Norman

I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and don't remember anything about them afterwards. But I read all sorts, from classic to contemporary.
‐‐ Rebecca Hall

I read everything that Tolkien wrote, and also read biographies of him. I was fascinated by his experiences in World War I, which includes the loss of life of some of his very, very close friends. I think he writes about that a lot in 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings.'
‐‐ Richard C. Armitage

I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I try to read at least two to three hours a day. I read only fiction.
‐‐ R. L. Stine

I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to.
‐‐ Karin Slaughter

I read fashion magazines all the time. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.
‐‐ Becki Newton

I read five books on the Constitution. My favorite was 'Plain, Honest Men' by Richard Beeman. I went on a science jag in the same way. I kept getting in arguments about evolution and being bested. So I read Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of the Species,' a fantastic book that is not that difficult.
‐‐ Denis O'Hare

I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

I read French much better than I speak.
‐‐ Cara Black

I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.
‐‐ Italo Calvino

I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.
‐‐ Stanislav Grof

I read 'Game Change.' If you want to relive the campaign, that book is unbelievable. It's great. It's the book of that campaign. It brought all the memories back of everything with Clinton and Obama, and Sarah Palin and McCain, and choosing her, and John Edwards. It was an interesting book.
‐‐ Annette Bening

I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.
‐‐ Amanda Donohoe

I read God's word when I am not suffering. And then I don't have to all of a sudden establish this habit when I am hurting.
‐‐ Anne Graham Lotz

I read good. I was an English major.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news.
‐‐ Steve Wozniak

I read H.P. Lovecraft. I also like Sword and Sorcery stuff, Arthurian legend.
‐‐ Bruce Boxleitner

I read 'Holes' in 10th grade, and I haven't read a full book since. The movie version with Shia LaBeouf was OK, but the book was way better.
‐‐ Domo Genesis

I read hugely as a child, but I slowed up when the print got smaller. I am a very slow reader. I don't know why. Maybe it is like some people chewing their food for ages and some wolfing it down.
‐‐ Geraldine McCaughrean

I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.
‐‐ Harriet Walter

I read. I order books from the States. I literally go into bookstores, close my eyes, and take things off the shelf. If I don't like the book after a bit, I don't finish it. But I like to be surprised.
‐‐ Stanley Kubrick

I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.
‐‐ Marquis de Lafayette

I read in a weird way. It comes in waves, and then I start, like, five different books at once. It takes me six months to a year to finish them all, since I read mostly on planes.
‐‐ Barry McGee

I read in 'Life' magazine that Asians had developed an operation to enlarge eyes, and I yearned to have this done. I wanted to dye my hair brown and to anglicize my name. Self-hate was the most terrible cost of the war years for me.
‐‐ David Suzuki

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.
‐‐ Cynthia Ozick

I read in the 'Daily Mail' that I'm one of these 'foul-mouthed comedians.' But I'm much cleaner than the people they like. Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to think that a 70-year-old - particularly someone like Alan Bennett - would like it, because they've seen a lot of stuff.
‐‐ Stewart Lee

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.
‐‐ Groucho Marx

I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
‐‐ Gail Porter

I read in the papers how much I'm earning and fall about laughing because I'm sure it's not that much; otherwise, I'd have an enormous boat. I'm literally not the slightest bit interested in money. I just don't pay any attention to money; it's rather vulgar.
‐‐ Jeremy Clarkson

I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.
‐‐ Robert M. Gates

I read incessantly, searching for the things that might move me.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan

I read. It's also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world than acting. It makes me feel like I am doing things that normal people are doing at my age.
‐‐ Monica Keena

I read 'Jaws' and 'The Godfather' back to back one summer when I was 14 and was suddenly aware of how powerful fiction could be.
‐‐ Mark Billingham

I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It was the first grown-up book that I had read. It is the story of a young man who grows up to be a novelist. I finished it, and I wanted to write a book that made the reader feel the way I felt at the end of that, which was sort of both bereft and elated.
‐‐ Glen Duncan

I read Leisel Jones' book. She said she retired at 27 and said, 'Now what?' because swimming was the biggest part of her life. So for me, that's why I'm keeping up my studies on the side even if it's going to take a bit longer than normal, but at least I'll have it.
‐‐ Jessica Fox

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.
‐‐ Jonathan Carroll

I read like a crazy person, I play the piano, and I'm a photographer. I always say my photography keeps me sane. I spend a lot of time in the darkroom. It's a very solitary, quiet life when I'm not working.
‐‐ Alaina Huffman

I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read.
‐‐ Nicole Krauss

I read little nonfiction, but I have no boundaries about the fiction I relish. The only unfailing criterion is that I can hitch my heart to the imagined world and read on.
‐‐ Scott Turow

I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening.
‐‐ Hans Vestberg

I read many riveting escape-and-evade accounts of airmen and of the Resistance networks organized to hide them and then send them on grueling treks across the Pyrenees to safety. But it was the people I met in France and Belgium who made the period come alive for me. They had lived it.
‐‐ Bobbie Ann Mason

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

I read 'Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them,' and I found frightening pieces that related to... my own life.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.
‐‐ Jim C. Hines