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The Hunger Games' is for eighth-grade girls! Winners read 'The Art of War!'

— Skip Bayless

Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

— Nathaniel Philbrick

I don't read music. I don't write or read music.

— James Taylor

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

— Booker T. Washington

I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read.

— Annie Dillard

I just don't read reviews, because it can really hurt you.

— Toni Tennille

No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.

— Ernest Hemingway

Once I learned to read, I could not imagine my life otherwise.

— Keith Donohue

A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

— Dick Cavett

I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to.

— Norah Jones

I know from personal experience that it is extremely difficult to read while you work out, especially on a Stairmaster.

— Alexandra Petri

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to…

— Karin Slaughter

If you read something and you want to do it, nothing gets in your way, you figure out how to bring that…

— Fred Hechinger

I do get the comics online I guess but it's such a pain. I'd rather just get them in the paper and…

— Drew Carey

This stereotype as Marcus Mariota as a spread quarterback that just runs read options all the time, that's ridiculous.

— Jon Gruden

I was such a lazy teenager: I didn't read or play the piano beyond the bare minimum.

— Stephen Hough

Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to…

— William Gibson

When I read the 'Dick and Jane' stories, I thought they were afraid they might forget each other's names because they always…

— Jon Scieszka

'Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer…

— Eric Brown

You can't judge a book by its cover until you open up and read it. There are going be a million stories…

— Dion Waiters

You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what…

— R. A. Salvatore

The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's…

— Niall Ferguson

In general, what we really want is a feeling when we read anything that the author has explored the territory as dutifully…

— Hilton Als

I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.'…

— J. G. Ballard

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

— Simon Van Booy

I read to be taken out of myself, to become ecstatic.

— Henry Miller

If you read Grimm's fairy tales, they're absolutely terrifying.

— James Purefoy

I read the entire 'Alias' series. I devoured them.

— Krysten Ritter

The student is to read history actively and not passively.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Internet can be deceiving. Don't believe everything your read. Or you see.

— Duncan Robinson

If you do not have the time to read, you do not have the time to lead.

— Phillip C. Schlechty

If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

— Doris Lessing

When I read a book, it's Lou Reed's voice narrating it.

— Christine and the Queens

“Read the first 2 chapters FREE at moreofnadine.com”

— Nadine Bayonne

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

— Malcolm Lowry

I do not think you should read about writing while you are writing.

— Maxwell Perkins

“Before there were books, we read each other.”

— Lisa Cron

I read a lot of comic books and they don't mention Dwight Howard much.

— Brook Lopez

“the thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read.”

— Donald Barthelme

I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.

— Adam Sandler