Famous Quotes & Sayings

Truman Capote

Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story. The test of whether or not a writer has defined the natural shape of his story is just this: After reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is something nature has made just right.

Truman Capote

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

Richard Darman

Explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands: He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.

Reynolds Price

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

Reza Aslan

Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God’s essence. As one Sufi master has argued, why spend time reading a love letter (by which he means the Quran) in the presence of the Beloved who wrote it?

Raymond Chandler

The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.

Raymond Chandler

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

Raymond Chandler

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

Regis Philbin

More people should use their library.

Regis Philbin

What can I say? Librarians rule.

Rebecca Solnit

No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading.

Rick Yancey

In case you're an alien and you're reading this: BITE ME.

Rick Warren

If you always feel comfortable reading God's Word, you're either not reading ALL of it, or you aren't letting it sink in.

Veronica Roth

What thought or message would you put in a fortune cookie? "Stop reading this. Eat the cookie and live your life.

Veronica Roth

Reading is such a huge part of my life.

Maggie Gallagher

The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.

Macklemore

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

Haruki Murakami

I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if you don't catch all the detail. I'm not too familiar with the geography of nineteenth century London, for instance, but I still enjoy reading Dickens.

Haruki Murakami

I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the content in them.

Haruki Murakami

Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won't keep reading your work.

Haruki Murakami

I'm an average person. Is just that I like reading.

Haruki Murakami

You don’t get it, do you?" I said. “It’s not a question of ‘what then’. Some people get a kick out of reading railroad timetables and that’s all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out of matchsticks. So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?

Karl Kraus

My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.

Karl Kraus

To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.

Karl Kraus

When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.

Karl Kraus

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

Karl Kraus

One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.

Pamela Anderson

My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.

Oswald Spengler

One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.

Oscar Wilde

A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

Kanye West

If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now.

Kami Garcia

Are you accusing me of reading? ~ Ridley

June Lockhart

It was a show where you were given a quote out of current events and you had to identify who said it. I was reading eight newspapers a day and had compiled a file of about 300 quotes. I really had to do my research. The White House press didn't have to bone up on any of it.