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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
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 don't you write books people can read?(to her husband James)
— Nora Barnacle
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
Toni donates 15% of her royalties from EDGE OF SURVIVAL to diabetes research - to find out why, read the book!
— Toni Anderson
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 recently read that Arnold Schwarzenegger collects Hummers. Now we know why Maria's face is frozen in that puckered position.
— Brad Wilkerson
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
I have to say I do read partly for escapism. Why can't I escape and learn something?
— Christopher Bollen
If I were you, I'd go and do that. : VikalpThat's why you're not me! : Yatharth. — Shubham Choudhary
Somebody hates vampires, Mr. Chambeaux, but I have no idea who or why. Haven't they read Twilight?
— Kevin J. Anderson
If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?
— George Carlin
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
Why sleep when there are books to read.
— Tahereh Mafi
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
Why read? Because we are given more than we are.
— James V. Schall
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 is life a constant disappointment?''Because we read fiction,' Mia said, and Shelley nodded, knowing it was true. — Victoria Connelly
Why didn't adults want to read about Narnia, about secret islands and smugglers and dangerous fairies? I
— Neil Gaiman
I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.
— Robert Hass
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 really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.
— S.E. Hinton
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
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
Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through
— Mohsin Hamid
I don't read blogs. I'm living the life they're writing about. So why read about it?
— Nayvadius Cash
Why just read the writing? Write the reading!
— Jesse B. Booth
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 a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.
— Chris Bohjalian
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
If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.
— Teresa Nielsen Hayden
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
Why do you always want to read about other people's lives, Matt? Ain't your own good enough for you
— Jennifer Donnelly
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
