Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

Poetry. I read Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Hirschfield. I like to read Billy Collins out loud.

I'm a bit dyslexic so I found learning to read hard. I muddled up the letters but learnt to power through.

I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.

Every article I've read about myself always winds up concluding that I am not, in fact, completely stupid.

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

I want to tell the children of Kashmir that they should read, write, and learn and come to the mainstream.

I'm hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read.

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.

I don't have a stack of scripts that, when I get home, studios are clamoring, saying, 'Has Bob read ours yet?'

I've read the 'Book of Revelation' a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

Stop being childish. Use your time better - better yourself. Read a book, or do a workout exercise on YouTube.

I've been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan's vicious crimes in Manchuria and China.

As I read the New Testament, I find only one path to salvation - the path of an informed faith in Jesus Christ.

I would always be embarrassed to read out loud in class because I would transpose words and letters and things.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

The printing press did something really big for the world when everyone could get books in their hands and read.

There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.

I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.

I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

I've got an awful memory, and I can't read or write, but you can read me a script once or twice, and I've got it.

I've been practicing Ayurvedic medicine, and I've read the 'Bhagavad Gita' and Rumi, and these are very important.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.

I love being on the beach - it's my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.

I read every agreement of every contract. Anything I put my signature on, I really do read them. And I find things.

I have always had a keen interest in defence and military history and read more on this subject than anything else.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

I do not read newspapers. I do not take any information which I don't want to take. I make sure I keep my composure.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

Every day, I read about new ideas and research that could help someone I care about live a longer and healthier life.

I don't read music. I've never had a lesson. I don't know anything about music other than what my inner knowledge is.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

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