Read To Me Quotes

You? Favorite thing to do?" "Um ... read, I guess. I'm a nerd." "I like to read too, that doesn't make you a nerd. Unless you're calling me one. — Shelly Crane

Who else but me is ever going to read these letters? — Anne Frank

For me, Anthony Powell is a religion. I read 'A Dance to the Music of Time' every few years. — Alan Furst

I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures. — Ethel Merman

My father died when I was quite small, so my uncle used to buy me books and read them to me. — Jenny Nimmo

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago. — William Hazlitt

I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world. — Adeline Yen Mah

I ended up doing amazing things with my life; I'm well-read, educated and sophisticated - and I'm not the stereotype everyone makes me out to be. — Taryn Manning

You cannot force me to make my wishes now" She squared her shoulders and looked at him. "I've read texts. — Melissa Marr

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it. — Woodrow Wilson

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write. — Red Cloud

People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something. — Amber Tamblyn

The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too. — Neil Gaiman

Ghost Hampton" took me years to write -- but it won't take you that long to read! — Ken McGorry

To feed me, you must read me! — Sm

Listen closely. Hang on to every word. But most of all, please believe me. — Calia Read

I saw a great bumper sticker that read: 'Do something that scares you every day.' That really stuck with me. I try to live like that. — Janice Tanton

Dave Chappelle asked me to come do his show. I read the script, and I said, 'Has he lost his mind?' — Marla Gibbs

When I die, it's going to read, 'Game Show Fixture Passes Away.' Nothing about the theater, or Tony Awards, or Emmys. But it doesn't bother me. — Charles Nelson Reilly

My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies. — Bill Paxton

My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing he ever knew. — Richard Flanagan

It's not enough for me to just hear about something or read about something, I wanna know it in my bones. — Elizabeth Gilbert

It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music. — Yanni

I'm about to read Scott Turow's 'Innocent.' I've been hungry for this book since he first told me it was in the works. I'm a serious Turow fan. — Ridley Pearson

As a 14-year-old with anxiety, to have read about that in a book would have helped me so much. — Zoe Sugg

I'am looking for the book "Pancakes for Breakfast" by Tomie dePaola to read online. Can you help me with this? — Tomie DePaola

To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think. — Pearl S. Buck

When you want to read the book, come read the book. When you want to come talk to me and be my friend, come talk to me. — Lil B

'Mystic River' just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great. — Clint Eastwood

I suppose people might consider me a 'loose' reader, as I seem willing to read anything of quality thinking and prose. — Chang-rae Lee

I read an article that said one in five Americans thinks Elvis is alive. I want to find those morons and get them registered to vote for me. — Pat Paulsen

Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike ... it gives you a chance to read 'em. — Brad Pitt

My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple. — Lynda Barry

If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all. — Anne Roiphe

I like to read the bible in public places where people are watching me read it. And I like to mumur out to myself: 'Bullshit!' — Zach Galifianakis

It makes me want to go back and reread everything I've ever read, now that I'm experiencing these things with someone in real life. — Colleen Hoover

I want to read you every night. I want to take you to bed with me : your words, your thoughts, your mind, your body and your soul. — Avijeet Das

It's irksome to read about someone I don't recognize. It frightens me. — William Shatner

I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Brita said, 'I read at home, I read in hotels, I take a book with me on a twenty-minute trip to the dentist. Then I read in the waiting room. — Don DeLillo

I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write. — Benjamin Clementine

Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind. — John Jeremiah Sullivan

If I were to read about me purely on Twitter, I wouldn't know what to make of me. — Jeremy Scahill

House, and trust me, he wasn't the type to read fairy tales — J.K. Rowling

It's like asking me to describe fresh water. I need it to live. I need her to live — Calia Read

[I read news] because no one's going to tell me what they really think of something. — Ed Helms

When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me". — Soren Kierkegaard

People read so much into what I do. It's fascinating to me because some of it's probably there, but I haven't thought of it. — Paul Reubens

I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do. — Caroline Leavitt

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life. — Walt Whitman

Someone mentioned therapy to me once. I read a book instead. ~ Drew Stirling — Jayden Hunter

When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, 'Don't do it - call me first.' — Tom Ford

If God granted me a wish today, I would ask for a talent to read, write and speak all languages of the world! — Shikha Kaul

If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am! — Kajol

I read so much data. There's so much information that comes my way. And there's got to be a way for me to delegate more. — Terry J. Lundgren

I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies. — Candice Patton

Like Scout and her father in To Kill a Mockingbird, my father would pull me onto his lap each night in our four-room apartment and read aloud. — Jim Trelease

I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read. — Brent Runyon

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world. — Leonard Cohen

I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved. — Daniel Pennac

I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book — Jeff Lindsay

I'm not an angry person. When I write, the lawyer in me tries to make it as easy to read as possible. — Joe Scarborough

When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired. — Tadashi Shoji

I read Stephen King as a junior high schooler. My father introduced me to Stephen King far too young, which I'm very grateful for now. — Bridget Carpenter

I like to read because
it kills me. — Mary Ruefle

I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me. — Alfonso Cuaron

Other nights, Ayrs likes me to read him poetry, especially his beloved Keats. He whispers the verses as I recite, as if his voice is leaning on mine. — David Mitchell

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that. — John Barton

Lord, Your Word is a love letter to me, showing me how much You love me. And every time I read it, I love You more. — Stormie O'martian

As a student in England, I studied French and English literature. I read L'Etranger and the rhythm of the novel felt familiar to me - very African. — Sefi Atta

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level. — Rick Fox

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read. — Mary McLeod Bethune

My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects. — Bella Thorne

People will read into what you say no matter what, so it doesn't matter to me. — Norah Jones

Who was that lad they used to try to make me read at Oxford? Ship- Shop- Schopenhauer. That's the name. A grouch of the most pronounced description. — P.G. Wodehouse

Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book?
It took me years to write, will you take a look? — Nancy Lynn Jarvis

If I read too much or know too much it's not because I want to talk about it, it's only because it's interesting for me. — Karl Lagerfeld

For I shall be far away, before these lines are read, in a place where no one will dream of coming to look for me. — Samuel Beckett

I find it's impossible for me to read Proust. — Norman MacCaig

When I read biographies, I skip the first thirty pages about the childhood because it doesn't seem interesting to me. — Michael Ondaatje

My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again. — Iman

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right. — V.S. Naipaul

The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read.
They taught me I had a language in heaven
and another language on earth. — Mahmoud Darwish

I'm pragmatic. I like efficiency. I want to read what's in front of me and not have my hands tied. — Susan Brooks

While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read. — Nicholson Baker

They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read. — Lana Del Rey

I also try to read all of my fan mail. A lot of them send me candy, which I'm not allowed to eat 'cause my mom says it might be poisonous. — Justin Bieber

I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.' — Karin Slaughter

I've never read anything that could speak directly to my bones. — Tahereh Mafi

Some of the best advice my aunt gave me was if you want to find out more about something you read. — Amanda Penland

When I read a script, I'll have a very visceral gut reaction to what does this mean to me? How does she feel in my skin? Could I play this role? — Emily Blunt

Life's greatest lessons were not shown to me, read to me, illustrated or explained to me; they happened to me. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it. — Denise Mina

The books that have helped me most are the ones I reacted to, not just read — Rick Warren

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so. — Erik Larson

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists. — Nicholas Stern

I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a world without birdsong. — Terry Tempest Williams

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul. — Ben Nicholson

It's insane when someone shows up to your show and is like, "You could run off with me right now!" I'm like, "It's cool, I think I'm gonna go read." — Babatunde Adebimpe

Please read the book slowly because it took me a long time to write. — A.W. Rock