“ The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. ”
- Alvin Toffler- Copy
- 2.7K
“ The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. ”
- Dr. Seuss- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there. ”
- Billy Connolly- Copy
- 95
“ A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators. ”
- Malcolm Bradbury- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, and Homer will be all the books you need. ”
- Duke of Buckingham- Copy
- 785
“ Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window. ”
- William Faulkner- Copy
- 87
“ A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ It's not the same to read Gabrielle Garcia Marcus in Spanish than to read it in English in a translation. You lose a tremendous amount of subtleness. ”
- Antonio Banderas- Copy
- 2.8K
“ When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
- 1.9K
“ There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 1.3K
“ REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom At work upon a book, and so read out of it The qualities that you have first read into it. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 3.7K
“ The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 3.1K
“ If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed. ”
- Lily Tomlin- Copy
- 3.6K
“ What is important is not to be able to read rapidly, but to be able to decide what not to read. ”
- James T. McCay- Copy
- 3.9K
“ If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times. ”
- Anatole Broyard- Copy
- 613
“ The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews. ”
- William Faulkner- Copy
- 1.8K
“ To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one. ”
- Selwyn Champion- Copy
- 2.8K
“ I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer. ”
- Real Live Preacher- Copy
- 1.5K
“ A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely. ”
- Hesketh Pearson- Copy
- 2K
“ No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read. ”
- Lemony Snicket- Copy
- 1.3K
“ The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
- 2.8K
“ What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it, if he wants a safe seat in the audience - let him read someone else. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 1.4K
“ It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential. ”
- Sir William Osler- Copy
- 109
“ A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 2.5K
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