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I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news.

I love magazines and film critics, so I eat it up. I'm not one of those people who says 'I never read anything.' I generally read all of it.

And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.

I wouldn't say I'm a political junkie. I follow it. I read a few articles every day.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.

I don't read fiction at all.

My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

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 job for me.

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?

I am a part of everything that I have read.

One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer.

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.

It's much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

My wife read Narc as well and was really into it.

I get and read an enormous number of first novels.

I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.