
I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk.
– James D S
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- Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
- Don’t talk to people you don’t want to talk to, and don’t talk about stuff you don’t want to talk about. – Austin Kleon
- Entrepreneur, if your distinction isn’t angering the mediocre, it’s actually mediocre. – Onyi Anyado
- Everyone wants to talk-talk-talk. Can’t we eat-eat-eat, and then talk? – Sarah J Maas
- The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself. – SA Tawks
- Women would rather talk to other women than to men, even when they would rather talk to a man than to a woman. – Berta Ruck
- When people talk about their great past they’re usually trying to excuse the mediocre present. – Terry Pratchett
- You are sitting! Want to be there? You can’t reach there by not going there! Sitting is the enemy of your dreams! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance. – Steven Pressfield
- And read-¦ read all the time-¦ read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. – David McCullough Jr
- There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. – GK Chesterton
- There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book, and a tired man who wants a book to read. – GK Chesterton
- If I say I don’t want to read the book, I don’t want to read the book. – Gillian Flynn
- It’s important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book… it’s perfume, it’s incense, it’s the dust of Egypt… – Ray Bradbury
- Burn the book. It serves you once.Read the book. Serves you for a lifetime.Lend the book. It serves for generations to come. – Kowtham Kumar K
- To write a good book, you must read one book for each page of the book you are about to write. – MF Moonzajer
- The book the snowman was the best book I have ever read it had suspence durring the whole book it was AWSOME!!! – RL Stine
- Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words. – William Faulkner
- Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.’Subliminal messaging works! – Nick Jimbanis
- You would rather opt for death than give up. Because, what a way to live a mediocre life by choice? – Dr Jacinta Mpalyenkana
- I have been like a mediocre concert pianist playing in front of a tone-deaf family, who applaud out of duty rather than for accomplishment. – Chris Murray
- It’s not about making the right choice. It’s about making a choice and making it right. – JR Rim
- We all are manufacturers in a way – making good, making trouble or making excuses. – H V Adolt
- It’s much easier to talk about following Jesus when you are making general statements rather than specific commitments. – Kyle Idleman
- …the experience of battle forever divides those who talk of nothing else but its prospect from those who talk of everything else but its memory. – James D Hornfischer
- Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book. – EA Bucchianeri
- People are like books. Eventually, the focus shifts from the cover to the story that cannot be read in one sitting. – Kat Lehmann
- Regardless of the perpetual battle between believers and atheists, for me, religion is a tool of making friends, rather than making enemies. – Abhijit Naskar
- Don’t waste time with people who waste time. – Keesya HillJones
- Talk about getting off tangent. My mother’s friend may have just killed his wife and my parents are sitting there talking about cows. – Wendy Lichtman
- Hell people talk about hell, love people talk about love! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- The first rule of book club – is that nobody wants to talk about book club. – Douglas Lewis
- Why do people who can talk right waste so many words saying nothing? – Vince Vawter
- I don’t write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am–though I am rather clever and well read as a matter of fact. – John HeathStubbs
- People stop trying when there’s no benefit for being exceptional and no consequence for being mediocre. – Frank Sonnenberg
- In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that people with mediocre ideas are forced to rely on. – Jonah Lehrer
- Christians, who do not know the purpose of their salvation, are actually just mediocre people – Sunday Adelaja
- Maybe it’s not about the journey but rather the way you imagine the journey when you read a book. – BeaOngjoco
- You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock. – Harold Bloom
- I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I’m supposed to take when I one day leave this house. – Eve Ensler