Read Quotes

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.

I don’t go online, I don’t read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.

Berger poses many fascinating questions, including this one: What if companies had mission questions rather than mission statements? This is a book everyone ought to read – without question.

This makes his writing very pleasing to read: João Gilberto Noll pays attention to detail, but only to certain details. And it’s never easy to foresee which details will send the narrator or the plot in an unsuspected direction.

I can’t imagine turning into one of those codgers who no longer reads fiction. I’m regularly stirred by it and suffer no anxiety of influence. Influence me! That was my credo then, as I was developing and learning, and remains so now, as I’m developing and learning.

You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others.

My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read Boneland.

Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.