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When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.

I think that as is true in this industry, everything gets blown out of proportion because it's more fun for people to read about. It's even more fun to read about if the stories get wilder and wilder.

I try not to read the blogs or what people say about me. Because that's what brings everybody down - no matter what you do, you're always going to have haters.

I just know I'm too much of a wuss for Stephen King's books. I'm way too chicken to read horror.

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'

Sometimes when I read about my rebellion in print it sounds a little overrated.

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.

I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world.

I never even had the time to read novels.

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.

I hope we never get to the point that we put ourselves in Jesus' place. But when I read the New Testament basically, we get three mandates: to love God, to love each other, and to take care of the least among us. And I think this is at least a step in the right direction.

Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him.

I think as a young actress, it's very rare that you read something where you're not either 'the girl' or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

It's wonderful to feel supported, but there's a lot of negative energy towards me as well. So I ignore it, to be honest. If I started to read it all it would completely mess up my head.

I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.

I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.