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A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.

I read my books aloud before they were published.

I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.

I don't read books much.

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.

Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.

Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me.

As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed.

Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.

That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.

I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.

I tend to not only read reviews, but also every little stupid thing online. It's a very bad idea, and there's a lot of angry people in the world. And it's weird to absorb all that weirdness.

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.

Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

No one wants to read a math book.

I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.

I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.