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I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.

Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.

But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.

Well, before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books.

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

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.

I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.

Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha.

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.

Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.

If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick.

I don't read all the newspapers.

Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.

I tell my agent that I want to read everything.

The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get paid millions to read the news on TV. And, yes, it is insane. And there is nothing I can say beyond acknowledging my immense good fortune, and being aware that I'm blessed, and aware that it isn't going to last forever.

Allthough that doesn't happen often lately, I like to read exciting thrillers and those kinky magazines.

In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.

I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.

Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.