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I get and read an enormous number of first novels.

Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.

Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that.

I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.

I don't read reviews.

Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened.

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

My name is James Guckert. Well, when you read it, it's always pronounced some other way.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

I do get the comics online I guess but it's such a pain. I'd rather just get them in the paper and read them.

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true.

Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.

But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end.

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.

I've traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that, and it's a sad, sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and they're tiny. They're tiny not only in size but also in scope.

I can read the Tarot cards and believe in ghosts.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.