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My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn't know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed.

I sort of try to read the books when they come out impartially and not make up my mind, but the fact is when I was reading the sixth, 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince', there were bits in there where I was going, 'God, I would love to do that because it's so good'.

I don't usually read reviews.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.

When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm.

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.