645 quotes found
“I think very long and hard about every possibly offensive joke I want to make. I really hate mean humor and would hate to make anyone reading my jokes feel truly bad.”
“It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the 'Captain Underpants' books too challenging. Don't get me wrong - the humor and ideas are often sophisticated - ...”
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
“No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.”
“Reading brings us unknown friends”
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, ...”
“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
“As a child, I read because books–violent and not, blasphemous and not, terrifying and not–were the most loving and trustworthy things in my life. I read widely, and loved plenty of the classics so,...”
“فكم من الأشياء قد تحدث لنا بسبب ما نقرأ.ذلك أن ثمة قراءات تفعل بنا فعل الكتابة، وتوصلنا إلى حيث لا نتوقع !”
“I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.”
“A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or the dying. But worse was to come. For once the disease of reading has laid hold upon t...”
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the ...”
“What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.”
“The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects.”
“The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences.”
“Confronted with the choice between having time and having things, we’ve chosen to have things. Today it is a luxury to read what Socrates said, not because the books are expensive, but because our ...”
“I am made of words. Cut me & I bleed sentences. Read me, & I speak to your soul.”
