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“We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
"The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read. They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth."
Quote by -Mahmoud Darwish
I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.
Quote by -Mae West
Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.
Quote by -Madonna
"What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people."
Quote by -Charles Bukowski
"As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease."
Quote by -Oliver Goldsmith
"In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?"
Quote by -Jessica Savitch
"I write constantly, but only in my journals. I have three of them: one for travel, one for home, and one I write in before bed. But the last thing I want is other people reading it... What's really fun is reading your journal, like a year later."
Quote by -Cameron Diaz
"I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone."
Quote by -Dawn French
“I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
I didn’t know, until reading A Course in Miracles, that a miracle is a reasonable thing to ask for. I didn’t know that a miracle is just a shift in perception.
Quote by -Marianne Williamson
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
Quote by -William Faulkner
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
Quote by -William Faulkner
Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.
Quote by -Thomas Harris
He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read in himselfe, not this, or that particular man; but Man-kind;
Quote by -Thomas Hobbes
But what would be our readers’ reaction if we simply refused to get to the bottom of that question?
Quote by -Thomas Mann
And all you can do is just read," she said. She raised her voice an screamed, "You just read and read and read!" Then she threw herself down on the table and wept.
Quote by -Tove Jansson
He read the classics, the French and the German among others, but primarily the Russian, which enchanted him with their heavy patience.
Quote by -Tove Jansson
I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.
Quote by -Haruki Murakami
It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.
Quote by -Douglas Coupland
When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
Quote by -Douglas Coupland
Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way they used to talk about novels back in the 1980s. I like to think I hang out with some pretty smart people, but all they talk about is 'Breaking Bad.'
Quote by -Douglas Coupland
You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
Quote by -Douglas Coupland
I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if that. Even trying to imagine one year from now makes most people feel like they've been given a huge boring chunk of homework that's too hard to do.
Quote by -Douglas Coupland