4163 Read Quotes for You to Enjoy

One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels. David Grann

Realistic Favorite Read Eric Pioneer Authors Suspense Form Who Helped Novels

I haven't read a word of Proust. And I listen obsessively to sports radio. David Grann

Sports Word Read Proust Listen Radio

My mother doesn't need much sleep. At any hour of the night, you'd wake up, and she'd be reading. She'd read five, six books a week. When we went on sailing trips, she'd bring a suitcaseful for the week. Even then, her office would have to send more. David Grann

You Mother Wake Up Reading Books Would Trips More Week Hour She Read Sailing Wake Up Five Office Send Any Six Then Much Even Her Bring Night Need Sleep

My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were encouraged to read at a very early age. David Gross

Family Class Age Ours Read Were Encouraged Intellectual Very Very Early Age Childhood Middle Middle Class Suburb Washington VA Early Early Age

Everybody can, you know, go online, read about something, and have an opinion about something. David Harewood

You Everybody About Something Online Know Read Opinion Go

I want to be read, and I certainly want to sell, but I also see my father's eye from Heaven: 'Always write quality. It doesn't matter if you sell; if it's good, it's good - if you capture the complexity of life.' David Lagercrantz

Life Good You Quality Matter Father Complexity Eye See Write Also Read Always Sell Heaven Want Certainly Capture

I very rarely read a script that I don't feel I want to change a lot. David MacKenzie

Change Rarely Feel Read Lot Very Want Script

To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life. David McCullough

Life People College Back Pleasures Those Johnson Had Read Courses Go Infinite Samuel Them Pope English Swift Now

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader. David McCullough

Hope Me Book Try Will Kind Would Write Clear Like Make Read Reader Answer Maybe Interesting Shorthand Then Compelling

When I was about 14, in about 1984, I decided to become a great poet. Faber & Faber was going to publish me, and when Ted Hughes read my first anthology he would invite me to Yorkshire for meat pies and mentorship. David Mitchell

Great Me Poet First Become Publish Would About He Invite Read Anthology Hughes Yorkshire Going Decided Meat Ted

I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers. David Mitchell

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar. David Ogilvy

You People Spent Out Written Headline Read Dollar Five Times Eighty Cents Average Body Your Many Copy

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian. David Remnick

Happy Language Tough Wish Practice Enough Everything Complex Would Constant Pretty Russian Write Sooner Most Well Read Without Understand Am Than Letter Things Speech