Quotes About Read

There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

My lord Norfolk curses the day laymen began to read the scriptures. "Blessed are the meek!" he says. "With all respect to our Saviour, you don't want that notion to get around an army camp.

Write the book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.

It's not your job to read their hearts,' he once told me after I claimed, with shameful certainty, that begging was a profession. 'Your duty is not to doubt but to give.

Well, if it was a diary, Joy certainly would not read it. Absolutely not. That sort of gross invasion of privacy was only appropriate for one's own children.

Daisy had known the novel was silly even as she had read it, but that had not detracted one bit from her enjoyment.

When you write something by hand, slowly, you own the words. You type them, less so. You read them, even less. And you listen, hardly at all.

Newbery's other major innovation was product placement. Characters in Newbery publications read and tout other Newbery publications shamelessly.

I've read countless literary works that detail the longing and ache that characters have for someone they love, and over time, I have developed a strong belief that it's just dramatic bullshit meant to entice readers.

Your calling is in what you read, think and talk about

I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

For me, the power of the poetry in 'Milk and Honey' is the feeling you get after finished reading the poem. It's the emotion you feel once you've read the last word, and that is only possible when the diction is easy, and you don't get stuck on every other word, you don't know what the word means.

I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there.

I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.

'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy read, but because Gruen is not quite prepared for the philosophical implications of her subject, it is not as deeply involving emotionally or as interesting thematically as it could be.

Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.

If you do not have the time to read, you do not have the time to lead.

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar

The Arden Shakespeare is intended both as a student text and as a revision of traditional scholarship. If it is to be used in the first way, then the often narrow thread of text above a sediment of footnotes, something Dr Leavis so deplored, can prove debilitating. Poems, especially the classics of our language, should be read headlong. Dubieties may be looked up later.

Precisely what our concern or consideration requires us to do may vary according to the characteristics of those affected by what we do: concern for the well-being of children growing up in America would require that we teach them to read; concern for the well-being of pigs may require no more than that we leave them with other pigs in a place where there is adequate food and room to run freely.

My enemies can soar into the night like invisible demons, conjure wolf creatures from hell, and read minds. On our side is a god that can lead a man to a ferry!

The brief transcript of moments, written on the body, is so deeply satisfying to read.

If caught wearing white and you stain, stand and spread out your skirt, let the boys read into it shapes like blots of ink.

I plan to take time out and read, learn, and absorb more about acting.