All Quotes

I read more history books than anything else.
‐‐ James McBride

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.
‐‐ Jodie Foster

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.
‐‐ Ken Follett

I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.
‐‐ Chris Abani

I read mostly poetry.
‐‐ Joshua Sasse

I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had telepathic powers.
‐‐ Ruth Glick

I read murder mysteries. I exercise 40 minutes a day. I watch videotapes while I exercise. I listen to audiotapes when I am in my car. And I try to stay in three different centuries.
‐‐ Grover Norquist

I read my Bible and I pray and all of that. I really do. But at the same time, I don't think being gay is a sin. Period.
‐‐ Kristin Chenoweth

I read my books aloud before they were published.
‐‐ Beverly Cleary

I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
‐‐ Karen Joy Fowler

I read my father's books growing up. I thought then and I still think now that his writing is wonderful. It delights and infuriates me in equal measure that he's still that good.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
‐‐ A. Scott Berg

I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
‐‐ Mallory Ortberg

I read my sister's diary when I was 7. She was, I think, 13. It was awful to read it.
‐‐ Jack Gleeson

I read mysteries like Nancy Drew and Alfred Hitchcock, and I swim and I ride my motorbike.
‐‐ Heather O'Rourke

I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties, and his voice spoke directly to me. Nietzsche is such a superb literary artist.
‐‐ John Banville

I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.
‐‐ John Cusack

I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
‐‐ Dan Brown

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.
‐‐ Johnny Cash

I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henry's old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period.
‐‐ Rick Wakeman

I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.
‐‐ Mary MacLane

I read on my iPad. But honestly, I prefer print.
‐‐ Andrew Rosenthal

I read on my iPad when I travel. I listen to audiobooks in the car. I read books in my bedroom, where I have a comfortable couch, a lamp and two dogs to keep me warm.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

I read on the Internet that I was dead.
‐‐ Fiona Apple

I read one chapter of a book and put it down. Thank God for Kindle.
‐‐ Jimmy Fallon

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.
‐‐ Stephen Cole Kleene

I read one too many books about Joy Division by people who weren't there, and they always seem to dwell on the dark, the intense, the miserable image of Joy Division.
‐‐ Peter Hook

I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
‐‐ Dan Abrams

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.
‐‐ Nicholas Sparks

I read papers, try to watch news programs on television, but, as a rule, recorded. During the day I have no time for that, so I watch something taped. As for the newspapers, I try to get through them every day. Additionally, of course, I look through news bulletins.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

I read part of it all the way through.
‐‐ Samuel Goldwyn

I read Plato's 'Republic.' I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.
‐‐ Huey Newton

I read poetry to save time.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe

I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.
‐‐ Gary Coleman

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
‐‐ Barry Eisler

I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.
‐‐ Richard Russo

I read 'Pushing the Limit' and 'Dare You To' by Katie McGarry. Fantastic stuff. I had never read young adult before, but now I'm a believer.
‐‐ Lori Foster

I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of the prophet. That's how I trained myself. And then I was appointed imam by a Sufi master from Istanbul, Turkey.
‐‐ Feisal Abdul Rauf

I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.
‐‐ Gary Shteyngart

I read 'Rebecca' when I was a teenager and was swept away by the powerful voice, the gut wrenching suspense and the dark, twisted love story at its center.
‐‐ Lisa Unger

I read recently of the advent of a completely wireless house. Having just moved house and being drowned in billions of cords and cables, that sounds like a great thing to have.
‐‐ Julian Ovenden

I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete.
‐‐ Taiye Selasi

I read 'Red Dragon' back in high school. I love Thomas Harris' approach to the crime thriller that crossed over into horror in a way that nobody really tapped into.
‐‐ Bryan Fuller

I read reviews and consider myself pretty 'plugged in' to the literary cosmos, yet one of the things I love best about book-touring is the opportunity to compare notes with favorite booksellers around the country. I always come home with books by authors I'd never heard of - or books I've read about but didn't realize I might love.
‐‐ Julia Glass

I read rip-and-read news, but I wasn't a reporter. I was reading the wire, and the other thing was, I was reading commercials - and I could do a hell of a commercial.
‐‐ Mike Wallace

I read round the subject, I make a skeleton outline, and then I start work in the relevant archives. During the marshaling of the material, I copy the material from each archive file across to the relevant chapter in the skeleton outline.
‐‐ Antony Beevor

I read Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, every day.
‐‐ Mary Oliver

I read Russian literature a lot.
‐‐ Mikhail Baryshnikov