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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people.

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.

I read H.P. Lovecraft. I also like Sword and Sorcery stuff, Arthurian legend.

Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.

When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read the series have been able to envision and become very attached to the characters.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

I'm fascinated by the whole concept of snake handling. When you read about the Pentecostal snake handlers, what strikes you the most is their commitment.

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did that!' I don't think I've had a facial since I was 19.

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.

If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived in vain. Great poets might expect the whole body of their work, but most of us - well, I would settle for a handful.

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.

Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.

In high school, I read 'Silas Marner' and I was very attracted to this character - he was very rundown and he'd just stop, and things would happen around him.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.

The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it's the overall meaning that matters to me. It might escape some people who just want to read a comic, and that's fine. The overall meaning is what matters.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.