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If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

My mother insisted that her children read.

I'm so interested in the brain. I read true crime.

I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.

One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us.

It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer.

But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the rest of the stuff, and I just wanted to give a little more insight into what's happening in my personal life.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

And Michael likes to read a lot. People don't realize that about him but he reads a number of books per week and he's fascinated just about every subject.

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.

I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.

I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.

And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it.

I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them - active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular - to try and end the war.

In addition to having a good partnership with a good doctor, you have to do some of the work yourself. Go online, read about it, and find out what you can tolerate.

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.

I knew the term Stepford Wife, and I knew what that meant. I never read the book, and I think before I started filming I watched the movie. I thought it was very dated.

Once, I had so many scripts coming to me that I could hardly read them all.

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.