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The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God. — Michael Faraday

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth. — Tayari Jones

We can translate word and letter into color - [Arthur] Rimbaud stated that in his color vowels, words quote "words" can be read in silent color. — William S. Burroughs

As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier. — Alberto Manguel

For paradise in the world to come is uncertain, but there is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven we inhabit when we read a good book. — Christopher Morley

We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate. — Henry Miller

We know how to read traffic lights, but what don't you know how to read spiritual signs? — Paul Gitwaza

We have to admit that there is an immeasurable distance between all that we read in the Bible and the practice of the Church and of Christians. — Jacques Ellul

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure. — John Lubbock

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people. — T. S. Eliot

It's actually very hard to find an area of the economy that doesn't fundamentally change in the measure that we are able to read and write life code. — Juan Enriquez

Two infinites. Mean. When we read too quickly or too slowly we do not understand anything. — Blaise Pascal

Nature's book always contains the truth; we must only learn to read it. — Sepp Holzer

We shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken but how well we have lived. — Thomas A Kempis

For when we read, don't we summon the past into the present? Hold out our hand and invite an author to sit with us for a time? — Ari Berk

I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures. — Frances Harper

We exist in the world of books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Before there were books, we read each other. — Lisa Cron

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house. — Amy Tan

While we read history we make history. — George William Curtis

If you're reading to find friends, you're in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities. — T.C. Boyle

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author? — Philip Gilbert Hamerton

I taught my son to read with tabloids. We would sit to read the 'Weekly World News' together. — Errol Morris

People could see by your actions on the park that you cared about it. If we got beat, I'd fling the Sunday papers in the bin and wouldn't read them. — Drew Busby

You feel like if they just read the manual first ... If we had a manual, that is. — Jeff VanderMeer

We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible. — Penelope Lively

The beauty of what I read in the gospel is the intimacy of what we're called to, that there's no middle man. — Jon Foreman

We're all killers at heart ... I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction. — Clarence Darrow

We must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think. — Louis L'Amour

And we're going to have all the books in the world to read and when we go on trips we can take them. — Ernest Hemingway,

We must think ourselves empty when coming to the text of scripture and read ourselves full. — Alistair Begg

You read my words and instantly we are both connected — Richard L. Ratliff

If we read, we shall renew our minds. — Lailah Gifty Akita

But we can't be everything we read. — S.E. Hinton

We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find. — Harold Bloom

Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread. — B.R. Myers

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended. — Robert Rauschenberg

Yesterday we were able to understand more than what we read; but today, we read more than what we can understand. — M.F. Moonzajer

At first, we should read with a blitheness practically bordering on superficiality; later on, with a conscientiousness close to distrust. — Kato Lomb

If we read the Scriptures, God will shine in our heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us. — Franz Kafka

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are. — Justin Cronin

Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of the author's company. — Michael Dirda

We read books. They make us think. It matters very little whether we agree with the books or not. — Robert Henri

Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it. — Madeleine L'Engle

If we can visualize what we read, we own the potential to live that reality, — Daniel Marques

We don't get groupies.We get teenagers who want to read us their poetry. — Michael Stipe

It is not enough to read Hesse
and drink clam chowder,
we must have the answers. — Anne Sexton

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable. — Benjamin Disraeli

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world. — Judith Butler

We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's newspaper. — Philip Roth

Often we read to conform but not to educate. — Debasish Mridha

It is not true that 'we have only one life to live'; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. — S.I. Hayakawa

We read, I think, to repair our solitude, though pragmatically the better we read, the more solitary we become. — Harold Bloom

My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only. — Lev Grossman

I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught. — Rabih Alameddine

My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself We need more dissent and less dogma. — Camille Paglia

Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people in our own lives. — Edwidge Danticat

We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang. — George R R Martin

Writers write for the same reason readers read. We want to know how it ends, too. — Robynn Tolbert

What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be so separate as human beings. — Sebastian Faulks

Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant. — Ali Smith

It's better to be cautious and play it safe than regret pushing him too hard. We're supposed to get another read on it soon. — Dick Vermeil

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know. — Alberto Manguel

Jack reads too many books. He thinks we're going to drive all year and have great adventures. — Steven Herrick

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. — John Locke

When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year. — Warren Buffett

I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both. — Jane Yolen

History is an ongoing novel, but if we don't learn from what we read and see we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of history. — Tony Brooks

It has become true that to know the news in a country we must read it from a source based OUTSIDE of that country. In country echo chamber — Komrade Komura

I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce. — Rick Riordan

I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. — William Golding

We are what we read. It's probably better that way. — Malcolm Gladwell

If everyone read the poetry of Pablo Neruda we'd be a more peaceful, reflective world. Poetry can save lives. — Laura Moe

We practical men like to see things, not to read about them. — Oscar Wilde

We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too. — Nick Hornby

We go to school to learn what books to read for the rest of our lives. — Robert Frost

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters. — James Anthony Froude

The Word of God we read is written not so much with ink as with the blood of the Son of God; or — John Calvin

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

Read these and know my heart. We are not quite novels. — Gabrielle Zevin

If we do not read the word of God, how could we know His thoughts? — Lailah Gifty Akita

No one was born a reader; we learn to build the habit of reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We can find the answers will seek in books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We read not to escape, but to go deeper into life. — Joseph Monninger

Eliminate the thinkers and you control the population. That's the real reason no one knows how to read and why we live in chaos — Dennis Foon

We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves. — Andrea Barrett

We talked about how impossible it is to read minds and hearts and what a relief it is to hear what the person you love needs and learn how to give it. — Glennon Doyle Melton

With "The Thousand and One Nights", I learned and never forgot that we should read only those books that force us to reread them. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other. — Nikki Giovanni

There is a big gap between what we read in Scripture about the Holy Spirit and how most believers and churches operate today. — Francis Chan

I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely. — Amy Tan

Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters. — Patrick Rothfuss

We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in. — John Milton

We authors, who trade in fictions for a living, are a continuum of all that we have seen and heard, and most importantly, all that we have read. — Neil Gaiman

We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function. — Alberto Manguel

We read because we are essentially alone. — Jessica Zafra

Stories and images can be powerful means for conveying ideas. Every time we read a book or watch a movie, we enter into an imaginative — Nancy Pearcey

We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own. — Harold Bloom

I often say that we should only be judged on two things: if we're kind, and if we read books. — Paige Shelton