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Snow fell; I smoked and read John.

Why do pain and death make holy?

Out of what 'thou' was death born? — Alissa Valles

One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history. — John Andrew Rice

Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. — Finley Peter Dunne

Why are you doing this?" One of his hands caressed the books.
"Because books are made to be read," I told him. "And you like to read. — Katherine Allred

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff. — Ishmael Reed

If my mother were a bumper sticker, she would read THAT'S NOT APPROPRIATE. Taylor's mom would read WHY THE F*** NOT? — Natasha Friend

Of course she's read it. Half of England has read it, which is why it's vulgar to quote it.' 'Half the world has read the Bible and we quote it. — Jennifer Bradbury

Why did the blonde miss her flight? Because when she read the sign on the road that said, "Airport Left," she turned around and went home. — Various

I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure. — Woodrow Wilson

Why don't you write books people can read?(to her husband James) — Nora Barnacle

You don't need to have big hairy feet to read The Hobbit, why should you be gay to read a gay book? — Adriano Bulla

You read a lot, don't you, Ponyboy?"
I was startled. "Yeah, why?"
"I could just tell. I'll bet you watch sunsets, too. — S.E. Hinton

- Why did blondes vote for Clinton?
- They didn't know how to read and thought she can make their life hilarious! — Bryanna Reid

In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit. — Sylvester Stallone

You read stuff about yourself and you think, My God, where are these people coming up with these things? Why am I the one that they're picking on? — Shannen Doherty

Why do you read books?" he asked. "Why do you drink beer?" I replied without glancing in his direction, — Haruki Murakami

Why wait for the movie tomorrow, when you can read the book today! — Carmela Dutra

Why should I read something someone made up when real events are so interesting? — Frank Buckles

My #1 rule is write like no one is ever going to read it. Why? Because it gives you permission to be as audacious as you want. — Tosca Lee

Why do people who read Shakespeare still spend hours watching shitty TV or staring out of the window or arguing about whose dinner party to go to? — Glen Duncan

I read in hopes of little sparkling moments that are going to turn my head inside out. — Jo Walton

Toni donates 15% of her royalties from EDGE OF SURVIVAL to diabetes research - to find out why, read the book! — Toni Anderson

Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands. — Hugh Nibley

People don't read as much anymore. That's why they're so stupid. — Isabella Fontaine

Why read the current generation of text books when you have the ability to research and write the next generation of text books. — Steven Magee

A book's alright when the weather's foul and there's nothing else to do, but why sit and read when the wind is calling your name? — Mercedes Lackey

I want to know why I read as a child with such a frantic appetite, why I sucked the words off the page with such an edge of desperation. — Francis Spufford

You know you'd rather read about me than experience me in person. Why pretend? — Jonathan Franzen

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

Before you assume...read all the facts. Before you judge...try to understand why and most important
before you speak...always think. — Timothy Pina

The apparent objectivity of written words explains why people tend to believe what they read more than what they hear — Charles Eisenstein

Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through ... That is why people read: to have experiences. — Bonnie Friedman

Why read? Because we are given more than we are. — James V. Schall

When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book? — Richelle E. Goodrich

If everyone was so keen to Christianize the slaves, why weren't they taught to read the Bible for themselves? — Sue Monk Kidd

All I said to you, all i did for you, seems so silly to me now. — Tegan Quin

Zara: It's just a registry...
Kit: Am I the only one who's read X-Men and realizes why this is a bad idea? — Cassandra Clare

Reality is overrated to me. Everyone spends enough time on the computer, eating, going out to bars. Why do I need to read a book about that? — Blake Butler

A book is the one place you're permitted to feel emotion; anywhere else you're expected to be professional.
And you ask me why I like to read... — Suzanne Steele

But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story? — Jimmy Connors

Armies aren't very good about carrying libraries with them. I can't imagine why. We'd fight so much less if everyone would juste sit down and read — Cynthia Hand

Why don't you read the Holy Bible? — Lailah Gifty Akita

Why not?' She asks the most challenging questions that a woman can ask. 'Why should I not read? Why should I not think? Why should I not speak? — Philippa Gregory

That's what books do, isn't it? That's why I love to read. They bring us closer to ourselves. — Lisa Scottoline

I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer. — Colleen McCullough

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read. — Harold Bloom

Well if you already know how the story goes, why do you need me to read it to you?"

" 'Cause I wanna hear it! — Ted Chiang

Until you become yourself," Bloom avers, "what benefit can you be to others. — Harold Bloom

Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away? Chapter 2 — Mikhail Bulgakov

Why buy books when you can read them online — Matthew Reilly

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry. — Nicholson Baker

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal. — Jesmyn Ward

He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised. — Samuel Johnson

If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book. — Ayn Rand

And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death. — Grant Morrison

Why is life a constant disappointment?'
'Because we read fiction,' Mia said, and Shelley nodded, knowing it was true. — Victoria Connelly

That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones? — Jodi Picoult

Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears? — Lawrence Block

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other? — David Baldacci

It's a tiny bestseller, but, officially yes. But, hey, most people haven't read Moby-Dick, so why the hell should they read my book? — Richard Linklater

Why just read the writing? Write the reading! — Jesse B. Booth

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

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 you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right. — Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Why does anything left-wing have to be trendy before it's read, and by the time it's trendy it's already a force for conservatism? — Julian Barnes

I've had that conversation! "You had a minute! Why didn't you do that?" So if husbands could read our minds that would be great. — Mila Kunis

I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy. — Dane Cook

Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then! — Prince Philip

Why put off tomorrow what you can read today? — Me

There are hard days to live. You awake to a day when you feel you've done it all before, and you're going to do it again, so why do it at all. — Carew Papritz

Why do you always want to read about other people's lives, Matt? Ain't your own good enough for you — Jennifer Donnelly

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

I don't read blogs. I'm living the life they're writing about. So why read about it? — Nayvadius Cash

Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through — Mohsin Hamid

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt. — Vincent D'Onofrio

The longer I wait the more reasons I can think of why it means something other than what I thought it meant when I first read it. — Chris Crutcher

I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read. — S.E. Hinton

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

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. — Robert Hass

Why didn't adults want to read about Narnia, about secret islands and smugglers and dangerous fairies? I — Neil Gaiman

If I were you, I'd go and do that. : Vikalp
That's why you're not me! : Yatharth. — Shubham Choudhary

Dear Dick, I'm wondering why every act that narrated female lived experience in the '70s has been read only as "collaborative" and "feminist. — Chris Kraus

Why read fiction when real life can be just as interesting? — LHandLG

Reality's kind of a medium, maybe greater than paper. We all want life to have the same texture that we read about in novels. — Why The Lucky Stiff

How about your favorite book?" "This Side of Paradise by From. Scott Fitzgerald." "Why?" "Because it was the last one I read. — Anonymous

Why sleep when there are books to read. — Tahereh Mafi

You read a lot about movies with budgets of $25 to 30 million. Hell, if a studio can piss away that kind of money, why not let 'em piss on me? — Roy Scheider

If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else? — George Carlin

Somebody hates vampires, Mr. Chambeaux, but I have no idea who or why. Haven't they read Twilight? — Kevin J. Anderson

I have to say I do read partly for escapism. Why can't I escape and learn something? — Christopher Bollen

Why do people believe what they read in the newspapers, but question what they read in the Bible? — Denise R. Solomon

Is My Son Marshall Myu son Eminem okay for an 11 year old to read? Why? — Debbie Nelson

Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours. — Mark Doty

Often, if I read a story and I'm moved, I have an understanding for a character and I don't really know why. — Mia Wasikowska

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

Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology. — Janet Macunovich

If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it? — Franz Kafka

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue. — Carol Shields

What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I recently read that Arnold Schwarzenegger collects Hummers. Now we know why Maria's face is frozen in that puckered position. — Brad Wilkerson