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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

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity. — Lois Lowry

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

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

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

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

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. : Vikalp
That'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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us with a blow then why read it? — Franz Kafka

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

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

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

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 put off tomorrow what you can read today? — Me

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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