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Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script.

If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth.

I've got to read the 'Hunger Games' before I see the movie.

The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it.

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.

I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

I had a feeling about directing Cocoon II: The Return. At first I wasn't too interested because it was a sequel. Then I read the script and was excited by the relationships and its mystic quality.

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

My mother taught me to read.

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

Because of that I don't care when I read in the newspaper that I am colourblind. I went through a red light in my car and I stopped when I before a green light. So I must be really colourblind, eh?

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.

I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

I think really good books can be read by anybody.

Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture.

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.