"Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen."

Reading, Read

31

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen."

Exlpore more Reading quotes

"She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me."

John Green, American Author

Reading, Joy, Novel, Emotion

"Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

Reading, Writing, Meaning, Interpretation

"When you read a book put all of your effort into staying present and focus your energy towards the comprehension of each and every word and how you can apply it into your daily life."

Matthew Donnelly, American Author

Reading, Focus, Presence, Learning

"A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Reading, Woman

"Read in order to live."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Reading, Order

"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."

Mary Wortley Montagu, English Writer

Reading, Entertainment, Pleasure

"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare."

Anthony Burgess, English Novelist

Reading, Read

"Reading sparks writing."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

Reading, Writing, Inspirational, Books

"When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding an old-fashioned book in my hands. There's a special, tactile experience."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Reading, Happiness, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"More than a half million books, all of them smelling like dust and ink, two terrible smells that blend mystically to make something beautiful. Powells is another church to me, a paperback sort of heaven."

Donald Miller, American Author

Reading, Books, Knowledge, Joy

Explore more quotes by George Byron

"Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment."

Perception

"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor."

Nationalism

"Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion."

Religion

"I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?"

Being

"Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp."

Money

"I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions."

Uncertainty

"Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it."

Life

"Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down."

Criticism

"All farewells should be sudden, when forever."

Farewell

"But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."

Thought