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Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.

It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.

I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

I read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy, cool and funny. It's a really specific thing. We stuck to it, it turned out good and a lot of people liked it.

I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films.

Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.

I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.

'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows.

Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

I went out for a film where they wanted seven brothers and one sister, so I was there for half a day while they were waiting for 'Archie' to read for a boy... I've had drivers come to pick me up in England looking for a blond, blue-eyed Scottish boy.

I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.

I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments.

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.