Quotes About Read

I think our refusal to read {some} novels exactly corresponds with..our refusal to confront inconvenient facts of a changing world and our moral culpability in what our government has done in our name . . . While more novels are read than ever before--those are escapist novels--so as to forget what we need to remember.

1. Sometimes music is needed. 2. Sometimes silence. 3. A novel, like all written things, is a piece of music, the language demanding you make a sound as you read it. Writing one, then, is like remembering a song you've never heard before.

Obsessing about statistics won't make you a better poker player. In fact, you'll end up wasting too much valuable time on that stuff when you should be concentrating on crucial issues, like getting a read on your opponents and studying the psychological aspects of the game.

If you play the video game, you become more interested and you want to know more about it. You want to read as much about it as you can, see it live and watch as many games as you can. If you're the type who wants to be as involved as you can in the sport, you're probably going to want to play 'Madden NFL.'

If I simply stay in that moment on the pitch and read the game, I can do so much more.

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.

I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.

When you're playing a good team, not too many point guards want to go one on one. When you're playing a not-so-good team, teams that are fighting to make the playoffs, guys are going to want to try and get their own. It's just a different read of each team.

You know you're getting old when a four-letter word for something pleasurable to do in bed is r-e-a-d.

I approach an action sequence almost like a mathematical problem. Sometimes you get these action sequences that you read and go, 'Oh my God, this is huge, how do I do it?' and I go, 'Just a step at a time. Sit down and plot each piece of it out.'

I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head.

Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read.

As Secretary of State, we need someone with sound judgment, ask tough questions, and should not be willing to just read talking points.

A lot of the people that I read have never had a medium experience before - it's comforting.

My mother liked to command me to do things I found scary. I always wanted to stay home and read. My mother only ever wanted me to get away.

Generally, if a good script comes in I read it, and if it appeals to me, it appeals to me. And it doesn't have to be anything - it doesn't have to be the main character, it doesn't have to be a huge part. It could be a nice cameo - anything that I think is good and surrounded by good, enthusiastic people.

He pinched the name tag and ran his fingers under the letters. Can you read this, mate? It says C-H-A-R-O-N. Say it with me: CARE-ON. Charon. Amazing! Now: Mr. Charon. Mr. Charon. Well done.

I wondered if Grover could still read my emotions, mixed up as they were.

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

Crystal then read the red sticker out loud, "Dangerous, do not open." We both stared at each other for a moment. I was trying to figure out why a dumb book about power was dangerous

To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.

To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

Paper Towns for a Paper Girl, who wants to think and read clearly

If we read the scriptures, we shall escape the evils of sin.