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Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.

Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.'

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.

These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

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

Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.

When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.

If I read or listened to critics of our music, I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.

Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek.

I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.