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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.

Jon Ronson makes me laugh. I’ve read all of his books.

I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.

Read different to think differently; world is already into rat race.

Do not let reading become a forgotten art

If I read or listened to critics of our music, I’d have been discouraged a long time ago.

You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

I want to read the employment section of the Bible. I think it’s simply called Job.

When you write a book for publication, you’re writing it for other people to read.

When I write a book… it’s the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want to hear or read. Hopefully the audience comes along, since that’s the only...

Reading—it’s the third best thing to do in bed.

When I’m feeling a little empty in the head, I like to go see movies or read to loosen things up there.

I don’t read other science fiction. I don’t read any at all.

The greatest solitude; reading!

Be great, read great books.

Only the weak invite their demons to live with them. Isn’t that right?

Every child deserves to be a boat cast out in a sea of books.

Read to live another life, even if only for a chapter.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it...

I don’t normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.

Man is what he reads.

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

If I hadn’t read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn’t know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be...

Anyone should be able to read comics.

If you read all the time what other people have done, you will the think the way they thought.

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

‘Gone With The Wind’ is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell’s book and watch the film again; it’s a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.

I have a unique workout schedule. I concentrate on balancing with my core and my legs. Then, like any other surfer, I try to read the ocean. It’s always changing and moving – doing its...

I don’t remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in...

That’s how I prepare for anything – I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I’m a bit of a nerd like that.

Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.

An authors publication date never matters, a book not read yet will always be New”…

I’m in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author,...

The greatest tribute one can give to a writer is that it is simply enough to read him.

Don’t feed your body and keep your spirit starving. Butter bread for your body and living bread for your spirit. Read the Bible every day and keep your spirit away from hunger.

I read; I travel; I become

To learn, read; to understand, participate.

Read every book, blog, website, whatever, about what you want to be an expert in.

Some words are invisible—namely spoken words—but that only means I read them with my ears. But people are rude, and they often speak to me when I’m trying to read.

I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because...

I think of my books as mainstream and that’s were most people who read them look for them in book stores.

This is unbearable … God. These books she’ll never read. Her Life’s Library.

Read about things that wouldn’t keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair.

A man who does not read miss great wisdom.

We sometimes received – and I would read – 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

I do read on holiday, but it tends to be very lowbrow. I’m into really camp biographies, and I’m a shameless fan of Jilly Cooper.

Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly young female students who want to talk to me about feminism, I find myself staggered by how much they have read, how creatively they think and how...

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy – people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online – but I was talking...

In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens.