Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Mark Twain

It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.

Mark Twain

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Mark Twain

Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.

Leonardo DiCaprio

The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as an adult.

Leonardo da Vinci

Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.

Oscar Wilde

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

Paul Rand

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

Patrick Rothfuss

Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead.

Patrick Rothfuss

It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?

Patrick Rothfuss

I will say the most raw joy I've experienced reading has probably come from the times I've been reading with my little boys.

Patrick Rothfuss

Unfortunately, a lot of fantasy is chock full of sexism and racism. A lot of authors don't even realize they're doing it, and a lot of readers don't know they're reading it. That's what makes it so scary in some cases.

Patrick Rothfuss

I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.

Paloma Faith

I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.

Lily Collins

I don't like reading things that people say on the Internet because I know so much of it is not true. I don't want to waste my time worrying about what other people are thinking. I just want to focus on being able to do cool projects.

LeVar Burton

That's not a role you prepare for. There's no preparation. You don't have time to prepare for the reading of an audiobook. You do the reading of an audiobook in basically two days' time - an unabridged version, maybe three days.

LeVar Burton

I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being

Lev Grossman

I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.

Leigh Hunt

I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

P. J. O'Rourke

A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing either, you can worry yourself to death.

Paul Merson

Reading won't have the confidence to be confident

Paul Mellon

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

Paul Muldoon

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry

Paul Muldoon

I do a lot of readings.

Ishmael Reed

One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

Iris Murdoch

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.

Ida B. Wells

The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.

Gloria Steinem

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

Harold Bloom

People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I

J. Paul Getty

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

J. M. Coetzee

The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible.

J. K. Rowling

Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading.

J. K. Rowling

It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar - a cat reading a map.