Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.
Michael Morpurgo
Related Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse wil... DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM I wonder if you ever read my poems and wish they were written for you. KAMAND KOJOURI You might be surprised to find out you are eligible for something you didn't think you were eligible... ERIN KORSVALL Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or l... WILLIAM RATHJE If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tou... JANE CAMPION Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. ANNE STEVENSON Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary ... CARMEN AGRA DEEDY Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by. ROBERT PLANT "THANK YOU" When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens ... C. K. WILLIAMS She might not have read many books. But when she reads a book, she swallows the very words. If you o... KAMAND KOJOURI I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever. J.K. ROWLING If you think you have it tough, read history books. BILL MAHER Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about h... HARVEY KEITEL You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, th... JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, th... JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, th... JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voi... HELEN VENDLER You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, th... JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Kick back and sincerely enjoy this book. I hope some of these poems make you think. GREGORY JOHNSON You will be the same person in five as you are today except for the people you meet and the books yo... CHARLES ''TREMENDOUS'' JONES Did you ever hear anyone say "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be... JOSEPH HENRY JACKSON Did you ever hear anyone say, "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might b... JOSEPH HENRY JACKSON Read everything! Don't just read things that are in your comfort zone or things that you think y... CASSANDRA CLARE If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not co... LILY TOMLIN Try everything on, even gowns that you don't think you'll love. You might be surprised and f... REEM ACRA If you only read books, how will you read the scripture inside you? TAPAN GHOSH I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. DONALD TRUMP Sections in the bookstore - Books You Haven't Read - Books You Needn't Read - B... ITALO CALVINO Think more than you read and become an author.
Think as much as you read and become a speaker.
Read ... EPHDAN Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewe... JOHN GREEN You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement. JOHN RUSKIN I love making people happy and I think I'm basically a good person ...despite what you might read ab... DUFF MCKAGAN I had to read it for home school. It is sort of a mystery, and it was so detailed. I like books like... CAROLINE LELAND You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting. ROSE MACAULAY You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting. ROSE MCCAULAY You've got to do something with all the books you've read, so you might as well imagine you&... NATASHA LYONNE Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc... JOHN GREEN We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks i... KALLAM ANJI REDDY There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fulln... DOUGLAS ADAMS Smile. You might be happier than you think. RAIN BOJANGLES I want you to know that, despite what you might read at times in the newspapers or see on the televi... PAUL CELLUCCI I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. DONALD TRUMP Music should be judged on what you hear, not what you think you might hear. CARLENE CARTER If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is t... HARUKI MURAKAMI If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on... MORRISSEY Keep building your word-power. Read, read, read. That way you will be able to say what you really fe... VIKRANT PARSAI I am not a twenty-two-year-old boy; I am not a besotted fool. If you think to jilt me, think again. ... BRENDA JOYCE Some books are so special that you never forget where you were the first time you read them. NATALIE LLOYD It's a lot to read to keep up. She gives you a lot of literature that you keep and I know that I wil... CONCEPCION EHRLICH You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to re... PAT CONROY If you are anything like me --- Clever, fond of goat cheese, and devilishly handsome --- then you ha... BRANDON SANDERSON The words I'm singing now
Mean nothing more than meow to an animal THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS Just when I think you might have a soul, you say shit like that. KODY KEPLINGER I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people yo... BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ Read it with sorrow and you will feel hate. Read it with anger and you will feel vengeful. SHANNON L. ALDER I think of workshopping as a way to read your own work through the eyes of others - a scene that you... ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN There's times when you'll think that you mightn't, / There's times when you know that you might; / B... RUDYARD KIPLING I'll tell you one big misconception. Cops never say 'Freeze!' It might be misinterpreted... GREGORY SMITH That's the beauty of argument-if you argue correctly, you're never wrong. , THANK YOU FOR SMOKING, 2006 Soon, books will read you while you are reading them. YUVAL NOAH HARARI You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the charac... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Be careful how you live; you will be the only Bible some people ever read. WILLIAM J. TOMS It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can. JANE HAMILTON When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you rea... W. E. B. DU BOIS When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you rea... HAROLD S. GENEEN When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read histor... T. B. JOSHUA Through books we can time travel, play make-believe and even create our own intangible art using the... THE MODERN BOWERBIRD: TALES OF A BOOKSHELF When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and yo... PATRICK ROTHFUSS In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Follo... ITALO CALVINO I know what you might be thinking here on your own, but those thoughts won’t last for ever,’ I s... SARAH MOORE FITZGERALD Think before you speak. Read before you think. FRAN LEBOWITZ Think before you speak, read before you think. FRAN LEBOWITZ You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things: the pe... CHARLES JONES You think you know everything, you don't know anything. If you know something, you are a geek. If yo... EPHDAN What shall we do at our tea party?" Daddy asked. "Do we sing and read poems like you do at Grammy's?... BABETTE DONALDSON OMG! I DESIGNED THIS NEW SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM! IT'S CALLED "POETRY" - YOU HAVE TO READ AMY KING'S P... AMY KING The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think. HARPER LEE I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in m... JAMES LAUGHLIN Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't m... PETER M. BRANT I think that every artistic venture is a risk, and it has to be that way, so you do as much preparat... MATT SMITH Read what you like, not what you’re told to like. That way you’ll read for a lifetime. CAREW PAPRITZ Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety o... NICHOLAS SPARKS Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor. IRISH PROVERB Firelight will not let you read fine stories but its warm and you wont see the dust on the floor. IRISH PROVERB I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your p... SAM KEAN A fleeting second on someone's news feed, No dearth of meanings for those who read, Not my... SANHITA BARUAH If your best friends do not read books, they read you. ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH [Gilliam] has a very free imagination. There's nothing you feel you can't do as an actor. The audien... JEFF BRIDGES You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it mig... NICK RHODES Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you... ALDOUS HUXLEY Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly--they'll go through anything. You read and you're ... ALDOUS HUXLEY I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will... MICHAEL ROBOTHAM When you read "The Secret" it tells you "Do not take no one's advice, but read books" Ain't that the... "BETA" METANI' MARASHI I sing in Hungarian. I read Hungarian. I do not pretend to speak Hungarian, but I sing in languages ... JESSYE NORMAN
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MICHAEL LEUNIG Milk contains growth hormones designed by Mother Nature to put a few hundred pounds on a baby calf w... MICHAEL GREGER Xavier Gens is probably the busiest filmmaker that I know. MICHAEL EKLUND I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like... MICHAEL SYMON Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now ... MICHAEL IGNATIEFF In early 2005, I really studied the prospectuses of these mortgage pools that were tranched out into... MICHAEL BURRY Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with ... MICHAEL JOHNSON The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and... MICHAEL LEUNIG I got married very young and put my career on the back burner for the most part because that's w... MICHAEL LEARNED I am an English-speaking Canadian, but my entire family - Russian exiles and the Canadians they marr... MICHAEL IGNATIEFF If you're going away, be sure to cancel the paper, the milk, and the laundry pickup. Remove the ... MICHAEL FROME I don't know if you call a burger 'recession food.' It's comfort food. MICHAEL MINA I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and th... MICHAEL PORTER The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost. MICHAEL GERBER A lot of people have experimented with hidden cameras and magic before. What I do, which I think is ... MICHAEL CARBONARO