All Quotes

Read more. Read every time you go to bed; read in the day - because at least, reading a book, you can't be distracted by anything else.
‐‐ Theo James

Read much, but not many books.
‐‐ Gustave Flaubert

Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard.
‐‐ Harriet Tubman

Read my lips: no new taxes.
‐‐ George H. W. Bush

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
‐‐ Edward Young

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
‐‐ Charles Stuart Calverley

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

Read over your existing business plan like you read the menu at your favorite restaurant.
‐‐ Darren L Johnson

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
‐‐ R. L. Stine

Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.
‐‐ Carmen Agra Deedy

Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing.
‐‐ Carol Berg

Read something of interest every day - something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible.
‐‐ Jane Yolen

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.
‐‐ Billy Graham

Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.
‐‐ Sarah Jessica Parker

Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.
‐‐ Terri Windling

Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty, a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and it's all different.
‐‐ Michael Mandelbaum

Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.
‐‐ Gustave Meyrink

Read the writers whose work is still around and has survived the winds of fashion and the attacks of the ignorant and the bigoted - read everything you can get your hands on.
‐‐ Richard Bausch

Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.
‐‐ Karen Kingsbury

Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form an idea of their terrific grandeur. One would think that, not content with laying waste all on land, it must needs sweep the waters of the shallows quite dry to quench its thirst.
‐‐ John James Audubon

Reader was by far the most popular feed reader out there, and its user base had been in a steep decline for two years before Google decided to shut it down.
‐‐ Annalee Newitz

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.
‐‐ Donald Norman

Readers and viewers will differ about what's totally standalone, what's totally serially dependent, and what's merely enriched by reading/viewing in a particular order.
‐‐ Edward M. Lerner

Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
‐‐ Kara Swisher

Readers are always surprised to learn that authors have little or no input regarding the cover art for their books.
‐‐ Jane Lindskold

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
‐‐ Aidan Chambers

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.
‐‐ Jeffery Deaver

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
‐‐ Anthony Burgess

Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?
‐‐ Evan Hunter

Readers can read what they want and easily switch to other books, so we're seeing a lot of reading behaviors. Some verticals attract different usage than others. We can spot reading patterns.
‐‐ Trip Adler

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.
‐‐ David Levithan

Readers have actually changed the way I've done things, changed the course of my career even, about four or five times. Just from reader feedback.
‐‐ Debbie Macomber

Readers have always read high and low, and to fight that urge is to fight the freedom inherent in the act of reading itself. The only arguments that have any traction, as best as I can see it, are about whether the genre classification of 'young adult' should exist at all.
‐‐ Eliot Schrefer

Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield.
‐‐ Jim Davis

Readers in general are not fond of dialect, and I don't blame them. I've read books myself that I've had to put down because sounding out every speech gave me a headache.
‐‐ Susanna Kearsley

Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
‐‐ E. L. Konigsburg

Readers, like writers, are essentially amoral. Arm's length will never do. We want to get closer.
‐‐ Stacey D'Erasmo

Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.
‐‐ Barbara Kingsolver

Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
‐‐ Edmund White

Readers often bring a different set of criteria to the work based on the format.
‐‐ Adrian Tomine

Readers prefer a world they can relate to.
‐‐ Dave Morris

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.
‐‐ Michael Crichton

Readers really want to come back to an author; they do not want a one-book wonder. That is all very well, but to be career author, you have to be prepared to write one really good book and then write another really good book and keep feeding your readers. You build your audience over a long time.
‐‐ Stephanie Laurens

Readers regularly ask what can go wrong but almost never what could positively surprise.
‐‐ Kenneth Fisher

Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others.
‐‐ Laurell K. Hamilton

Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls them to their higher selves - or to something higher than their current level of attainment.
‐‐ Leland Ryken