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Educate thyself through reading

Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

It is you who must someday break through the protective polish of who you are, to become naked and powerful to who you can truly be.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.

Sono convinto che chi non legge resta uno stupido. Anche se nella vita sa destreggiarsi, il fatto di non ingerire regolarmente parole scritte lo condanna ineluttabilmente all’ignoranza, indipendentemente dai suoi averi e dalle sue attività.

The big lesson of Reagan is: To think that he was some sort of simple figurehead and didn’t do the thinking and simply read a script in front of him woefully underestimates him. Ronald Reagan...

When I first read the story ‘Guts’ in workshop – my fellow writers that I’ve been meeting with for almost 20 years – they laughed; they didn’t have any kind of shock reaction.

Idle hands are the devils greatest tools. But it’ll be good to notice that the tools sharpened by idle heads. You are idle because that’s the job your mind gave you!

I’d just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

My goal is to put out an album with every song being an original composition of mine. I want the credits to read, ‘All songs written by Gregory L. Allman’ – that is something I...

I’ve never read a political poem that’s accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

I think every script I read has something that sends me into a state of panic but that usually makes me want to do it.

I have falling in love with reading.

There is a generation of skimmers. It’s not that they don’t want to read in-depth content, but they want to evaluate what the content is before they commit time. Especially on a mobile phone –...

Just because I never went to university doesn’t mean you can’t read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.

Now that I’m being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I’m unabashedly genre. It’s what I like to read, what I like to write.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

It’s much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.

I’m not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it’s in my comfort zone.

Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.

You should’ve thought of that before becoming a fireman.””Thought!” he said. “Was I given a choice? I was raised to think the best thing in the world is not to read. The best thing is...

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won’t go away.

If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That’s the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We’re in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some...

I read everything. I’ve always got a book on the go and I’m really nerdy about it, I get through books and don’t remember anything about them afterwards. But I read all sorts, from classic...

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it’s a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and there are things I see where I can punch people...

I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.

Your time is your time. Be awake to it. It’s hard work to be wisely alive.

If you don’t want to waste your time on thinking, start reading.

I don’t read reviews, and I try not to read articles about me. It taints your outlook: if you believe the good things, you’ve got to believe the bad things, too.

I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.

I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don’t know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them...

If you talk to most people under 30, they don’t read a newspaper.

The sole/soul purpose of a book is to be read.

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

If I were a box of cereal, I wouldn’t want to talk about myself any more than I do now. Just flip me over and read all about me if you’re curious. Everything you need...

I love ‘The Stand;’ I read it when I was a kid – it was one of my favorite books when I was growing up. I love Stephen King; I think he’s a remarkable writer.

The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated in ‘infantile pregenital erotic exuberance, polymorphously perverse,’ and that conscious...

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the...

If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

But I, you know, if I could choose a period to go back to, I think I would like to live through the Blitz. ‘Cause you do read so many accounts of people saying they’re...

I think there are some writers – like, if you read Kerouac, I think you probably need to take a little break before you sit down to the typewriter because he’s the type of writer...

I understand that when people read my books that there’s something there – but I don’t identify with it.

Some of this stuff sounds dangerous.

Because you don’t learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.

Back then: to be paid more, one needed to increase the number of things that are by him known. Today: to be paid more, one needs to increase the number of people by whom he...

The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house – and part of the required kit ever afterwards. The important thing was to have the books, not actually...