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Strange, i thought i knew you well, thought i had read the sky, thought i had seen a change in your eyes. — Tori Amos

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure. — Nora Roberts

I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well. — Edward Hirsch

Carpe Jugulum," read Agnes aloud. "That's ... well, Carpe Diem is 'Sieze the Day,' so this means-"
"Go for the throat — Terry Pratchett

My wife read Narc as well and was really into it. — Ray Liotta

I read once that despair... is when you are no longer able to sustain, even for the briefest moment, the notion that all will be well in the end. — Celeste Bradley

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

I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will. — James Vincent McMorrow

Judge [Samuel Alito], there's a genuine struggle going on well beyond you, well beyond the Congress, in America about how to read the Constitution. — Joe Biden

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

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

No matter how much you know, how well read you are, how traveled or cultured, you should never stop learning. — Stacy Keibler

I can read and speak Hindi quite well now and that's quite an achievement considering I didn't know the language at all when I came down here. — Katrina Kaif

He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell. — Chuck Berry

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.
I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. — Langston Hughes

I wanted to possess all the books I had already read, as well as all those I had not - every book in the whole wide world, in other words. — Andy Miller

Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply. — Richard Brookhiser

Well, first I would ask them if they had read the Bible; then I would ask them if they had understood it. — Jurgen Moltmann

If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them. — Barry Ritholtz

Echoes can't read minds. But when you get to know someone very well, you can read their expressions. Pay attention. It will happen to you too. — Dew Pellucid

But I wasn't a well-read bookworm; I was just a dumb whore in the right library. — Gillian Flynn

My parents, both of them had teachers in their family and were pretty well read. So my father voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower. — Jeff Sessions

Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living. — Janette Rallison

Being widely read is not the same as being well read. — Laurence Endersen

I'd read at a much higher-than-average grade level since, well, grade school. — Victor LaValle

You'll get younger not from what you read but from what you apply in your life. (192) — Victoria Moran

Often jobs are un-turndownable even before you read the script. You go, 'Well, I have to do that.' — Toby Jones

No time is more precious and well rewarded than those few moments you spend reading a story to a child — Robert D. Harris

Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write. — Chris Bohjalian

To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise ... — Henry David Thoreau

Well Getaway was a script that was submitted to us for production and I read it and thought it would be a cool movie to make. — Courtney Solomon

I wasn't a stranger to hard times. I used to read the Bible - well, I still do, but when I was young I read the Bible quite a bit. — Patti Smith

His reading has done him no harm, for he has fought as well as read. — Jane Austen

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

Writing well has everything to do with being able to read one's own work with an eye toward the unmet possibilities that are there. — Lucy Calkins

All afternoon, I read. I fall asleep once as well, no disrespect to the writers. — Markus Zusak

I much applaud thy judgement; thou art well-read in a fellow.
And 'tis the deepest art to study man. — Thomas Middleton

Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice. — Will Durant

People couldn't read well enough anymore to turn print into exciting situations in their skulls, — Kurt Vonnegut

There was something sexy as hell about us well read book sluts. — Haylie Harbour

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct. — Laurence Sterne

Well-written... interesting read. - Mary A. Boyce — Scarlett Avery

I'm actually as common as mud. I'm not particularly well read, or bred. But the way I look ... I seem to have this sort of 'aristocratic' demeanor. — Charles Dance

I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription. — Finley Peter Dunne

I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity. — Shia Labeouf

Well that's what I generally do with books - I read them. — Mary-Kate Olsen

Unless you have read and absorbed the best that can be read and absorbed, you will not think clearly or well. — Harold Bloom

People think I'm educated because I talk and write well, but the fact is I never finished high school. I've read a lot, is all. — Patricia McConnell

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose. — Douglas Adams

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people. — Robert Morgan

Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn? — S.A. Tawks

You've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books, you're very well read, it's well known. — Bob Dylan

And so in addition to lots of reading, the life of an editor involves constantly trying to get others to read as well. — Keith Gessen

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else. — Nora Roberts

I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well. — Kurt Cobain

Any person that don't read at least one well-written country newspaper is not truly informed. — Will Rogers

You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world. — Tim Gunn

If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed! — Lily Tomlin

Well, in the first flush of love, if someone tells you to read something then you damn well read it [ ... ] — David Nicholls

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man. — Barbara Pym

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself well, that's not going to happen — Rita Rudner

Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three. — Diana Gabaldon

It was well said of a certain German book that 'er lasst sich nicht lesen" - it does not permit itself to be read. — Edgar Allan Poe

You were a cop?" Sarah remarked, surprised. She couldn't imagine this elegant woman posted on duty anywhere. Well, Lord and Taylor, maybe. — Martha Reed

My mom's response after seeing a sign that read 'Love God, People and Life': 'Well a lot of people don't like people.' — Sasheer Zamata

When the smoothness of the pages of a newly purchased book comes to your hands, it is evident that the book is well-read. — Mosiur Rehman

All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind. — E.L. James

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge. — Henry Ward Beecher

Being able to pick and read good waves is almost more important than surfing well. — Shane Snow

Phil didn't know he was dead until he read it in the paper. All things considered, he took it rather well. — Burl Barer

It was easy to see that he was clever and well read, but he was also boring. — Hanif Kureishi

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

Well, before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books. — Rupert Grint

I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books. — Pete Wentz

You've got to respond to the fans, and play well, or people will jump on you. They'll read something and jump on you. — Tom Flores

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself. — S.A. Tawks

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

There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired ... they're all incredibly well-read. — Steve Toltz

Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification. — Sara Sheridan

When you read a line that is just so well-written you just close the book and stare at the wall for a minute. — Anonymous

History, well read, is simply humility well told, in many manners. — Adam Gopnik

Enjoy what you are learning and doing. This is one of the hardest concepts in the entire world to understand. Harder yet to put into practice. — Carew Papritz

For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions. — James Russell Lowell

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write. — Jack Vance

Sound gives life to our words just as well as the images they conjure up and the sound is there, whether or not we read them aloud. — A.A. Patawaran

To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly and wittily. — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

As a general rule, librarians are a kick in the pants socially, often full of good humor, progressive, and, naturally, well read — Bill Hall

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door ... Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? — Ray Bradbury

You know, I don't read the blogs, or go on the internet, and I really just don't know what people are saying because ... well I guess I'm afraid to. — Ron Perlman

It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read. — Frederick Douglass

I'm not well read. — Cate Blanchett

Roland Emmerich is a very interesting individual. He is more erudite and well-read than most of the people I know. — Chin Han

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. — Blaise Pascal

Fortunately, I started very young, so I read music very well. And my favorite composers to play are Brahms and Mozart. — Condoleezza Rice

They that pray in the family do well; they that pray and read the Scriptures do better; but they that pray, and read, and sing do best of all. — Matthew Henry

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, 'doesn't play well with others.' — Jon Bon Jovi

Anything I've ever read by John Irving has been really well written. — Luke Bryan

I'm a pretty well-read person. I read my paper every morning. — Tom McCarthy

Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me? — Ray Bradbury

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it. — Virginia Woolf