Read Quotes
I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.
Aaron KlugAaron Klug So rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
Alan Dean FosterAlan Dean Foster I started reading about people of great accomplishment… and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.
Ben CarsonBen Carson When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.
Ahmet ZappaAhmet Zappa But I think it’s very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.
Adora SvitakAdora Svitak When you read the Bible, read for quality not quantity.
Adrian RogersAdrian Rogers Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
Alan BennettAlan Bennett There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
Abraham VergheseAbraham Verghese I expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
Alan FurstAlan Furst Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
Adam ClarkeAdam Clarke You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
Aidan ChambersAidan Chambers When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.
Alan KingAlan King What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.
A. E. HotchnerA. E. Hotchner When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal appetites, then it is that Satan comes.
Smith WigglesworthSmith Wigglesworth You’re never going to read ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and you shouldn’t, really. It’s 900 pages.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke