Read Quotes

If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.

Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.

The bosses can’t read your mind, so I think women should tell them what they want out of their careers.

I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.

It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we’d read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone’s wrapping fish in it.

Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

And I even like my own company. But when I’m alone, it’s to read or write. I’m in my thoughts. Mostly I’m learning.