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You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that…

— Jamie Dimon

Obviously I had gone all through high school and into college, and you don't do that not knowing how to read.

— Nick Nolte

I read Slash's book because we were on the road together with Velvet Revolver when that came out.

— Duff McKagan

If you publish Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography, no one will read it but if it's Madhuri Dixit's or Madhubala's autobiography people will come…

— Asrani

I'm completely dyslexic - it's the writing part. People read what I've written, and they have no idea what I'm trying to…

— Jonathan Anderson

I read both in French and English and often a couple of books at once, mixing fiction and non-fiction.

— Pauline Chalamet

“Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.”

— Kamand Kojouri

I always travel with one book. I'll read it and then leave it for someone else, and take another book.

— Patrick J. Adams

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I…

— Sebastian Faulks

I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix…

— Jane Gardam

'Banshee' was interesting because it was on cable, and it didn't have commercial breaks, so it read like a movie. Not only…

— Trieste Kelly Dunn

When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my…

— Ray Bradbury

I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would…

— Ian Frazier

If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory…

— George F Will

I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started…

— A. Scott Berg

“But you don't know how to read anymore! When you open a book, you do it in the faith and assurances that…

— Philip Wylie

I've always read a lot of sci-fi. When my son was younger, I actually went to a 'Star Trek' convention.

— Blair Brown

I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.

— Steven Spielberg

Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.

— William Sleator

“Childhood only comes around once. Make your child's memories special. Take them on a new adventure each day. It is as simple…

— K. Lamb

Obviously, nobody likes to read or hear about anyone having a bad experience in our hospitals.

— Leo Varadkar

When I have the Bible memorised, then I'll be able to go and read a couple other books.

— Stephen Baldwin

“At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.”

— Thomas A Kempis

“You recently read others books, yet someday, make sure that they definitely read your books.”

— Pilo Poly

Good actors can make a huge difference to a scene that might sound or read flat.

— Karthik Subbaraj

One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael…

— Colin Greenwood

'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, and he's 9, so I'm like, 'No,…

— Samantha Shannon

I came to L.A. in 1970, and my desire and my training was to be a studio musician, which I had read…

— Harvey Mason, Jr

Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into…

— Antonio Munoz Molina

One I'm deeply into is Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals." I was the only person in the US who hadn't read…

— Dave Barry

You can't make someone read. Just like you can't make them fall in love, or dream.

— Daniel Pennac

“Already there are too many books in the world. There are more every day. One man cannot hope to read them all.”

— Hilary Mantel

It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself.

— Mary Travers

Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.

— Stephen King

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought…

— Ernest Hemingway

When I was writing 'You Suck,' in 2006, I constructed the diction of the book's narrator, perky Goth girl Abby Normal, from…

— Christopher Moore

I seem to be drawn to these smaller forms, and I seem to be drawn to things that can be written and…

— Jenny Zhang

I think you'd have to literally live in a cave to not know anything about 'Twilight'. I've seen a few of the…

— Jake Abel

“On getting lost in a book. Set adrift A life unknown Connections form Love is sewn”

— Patty Wiseman

Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.

— Cameron Russell