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Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

If people want to be better writers, they can’t just read the blogs! You’ve got to look at something that’s outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.

:Paintings are easy to see,” he said after a moment. “Open, presented flat to the eye. Words are not easy. Words have to be discovered, deep in their pages, deciphered, translated, read. Words are symbols...

I definitely subscribe to the idea that 9/11, to use an overused phrase, was a wake-up call. There was a year-long national teach-in on Islam – everyone read books and suddenly talked about Islam, and...

When you’re doing Sebring in the back straight at 185 or 187, and the car’s moving, you gotta know what to do with it, how to read it. Just the science of understanding shocks –...

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I...

Every night I pray I whisper into a megaphone, not only so God is sure to hear, but also my neighbors, because I pray to God He’ll deliver pestilence and plague to the residents next...

I would come, many years later, to understand why ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ is considered ‘an important novel’, but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked...

They say that to escape reality is when you sleep, but when you sleep your sub conscious is in control of your dreams. For me to escape reality is when I read and write. When...

Parents who daily read Robert Lewis Stevenson to their children and surrounds them with blocks, plastic animals, and some cardboard boxes or kitchen pots and pans are going to produce a qualitatively different child from...

If you don’t read the Holy Bible, you don’t stand a chance with the antichrist.

I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me...

I’m talking to you and it’s basically a direct communication, whereas if I’m writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.

I don’t read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.

A child’s imagination can be found in the heart of a good book.

I tend to like to read history – recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer’s imagination.

In quiet moments, I love to read.

I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books. There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers – there always were. Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can...

I love to read books. I love to read anything really, even the back of the cereal box.But there is nothing that will ignite your soul like reading God’s Word.

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests...

I don’t know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets – the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add...

Nothing you hear or read will be of any benefit to you unless you meditate and digest itdeeply.

You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.

People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.

I picked books by their covers – the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.

Not many people read my stuff, but I really like the ones that do.

I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.

How do text messages make you feel existential?I start thinking about exactly that: how people can edit a thought before sending it out to the world. They can make themselves seem more well spoken than...

Everything you read, becomes a part of your life.

I wish that the adults who are ‘in power’ cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young – the books I read as a child have stayed with...

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

I ride horseback – arthritic knees permitting – or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it’s hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I...

I don’t read music. I don’t write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

If you don’t read you will have nothing to write.

If you can listen to or read anything, but misspelled words offend you, raise your hadn.

This book is impossible to put down!” Well, apparently it’s also impossible to pick up.

It’s useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously....

I don’t write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

Yesterday we were able to understand more than what we read; but today, we read more than what we can understand.

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.

With fantasy, one often has to think of a well-loved series before narrowing the selection to a favourite book. So it is with Zelazny. I’ve read his ‘Princes in Amber’ books so often, I know...

Oh, I love to read more than anything. I always love the ‘New Stories From the South’ anthologies – I think it’s the best short fiction collection anywhere, just filled with treasures.

Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it.

I don’t look at the tabloids. I don’t read the tabloids.

I am a huge fan of using social media to connect with people because I think there was this ‘ivory tower’ aspect of journalism where people might read a byline for years but have no...