Raed Quotes

I’ve read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, ‘Boy I could shine here, but the story sucks.’ I don’t want to be part of that.

There are four principles we need to maintain: First, read the Word of God. Second, consume the Word of God until it consumes you. Third believe the Word of God. Fourth, act on the Word.

I just… want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

I don’t just want my books to be about the ’30s and ’40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as ’40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.

If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you’re fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you’re reading a whole new book.

The Bible has affected their lives, but in translation, since they do not read the Bible in the original Greek or Hebrew.

Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.

The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.