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title: "19 Started Read Quotes by 18 authors"
description: "Browse 19 Started Read quotes by 18 authors. Discover the best Started Read sayings and thoughts."
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> [“Shadow had made a face, but he had started to read, and had found himself hooked against his will.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/shadow-had-made-a-face-but-he-had-started-to-read-and-had-found/)

[Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/)

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> [What I started to read and most enjoyed while I was a student was an Italian edition of 'Harry Potter and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amanda-knox/what-i-started-to-read-and-most-enjoyed-while-i-was-a-student-was-an/)

[Amanda Knox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amanda-knox/)

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> [In high school and college, I started to read more and write science fiction myself. I was fully engaged in writing in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/liu-cixin/in-high-school-and-college-i-started-to-read-more-and-write-science/)

[Liu Cixin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/liu-cixin/)

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> [I started to read as obsessively about Star Wars as I once did about Kant - and still do about behavioral economics…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cass-sunstein/i-started-to-read-as-obsessively-about-star-wars-as-i-once-did-about/)

[Cass Sunstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cass-sunstein/)

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> [I've started to read more factual books, partly because I didn't go to university.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-dahl/i-ve-started-to-read-more-factual-books-partly-because-i-didn-t-go-to/)

[Sophie Dahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-dahl/)

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> [I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gore-vidal/i-started-to-read-my-first-book-at-about-the-age-of-six-i-started-to/)

[Gore Vidal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gore-vidal/)

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> [I remember somebody handed me Siddhartha when I was I think 18, and I started to read it and I just really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/regina-spektor/i-remember-somebody-handed-me-siddhartha-when-i-was-i-think-18-and-i/)

[Regina Spektor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/regina-spektor/)

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> [It's funny, because '1600 Penn' was the first time I really started to read the reviews, because I am an executive producer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josh-gad/it-s-funny-because-1600-penn-was-the-first-time-i-really-started-to/)

[Josh Gad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josh-gad/)

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> [It was probably 10 at night when I started to read Donnie Darko. I get in bed and read the first page,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beth-grant/it-was-probably-10-at-night-when-i-started-to-read-donnie-darko-i-get/)

[Beth Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beth-grant/)

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> [However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-ernst/however-i-survived-and-started-to-read-all-chemistry-books-that-i/)

[Richard Ernst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-ernst/)

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> [I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-windley/i-started-to-read-at-a-very-early-age-and-i-just-thought-that-books/)

[Carol Windley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-windley/)

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> [It was only against my mother's will that I attended the preparatory high school in the city. She wanted me to become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herta-m-ller/it-was-only-against-my-mother-s-will-that-i-attended-the-preparatory/)

[Herta Muller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herta-m-ller/)

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> [My parents were Northern Ireland Labour party people. We read the 'Guardian' and the 'New Statesman,' listened to the BBC. The house…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-paulin/my-parents-were-northern-ireland-labour-party-people-we-read-the/)

[Tom Paulin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-paulin/)

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> [I'm an anxious person in general, but something about being pregnant and awaiting the release of my first book, The Monsters Of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-groff/i-m-an-anxious-person-in-general-but-something-about-being-pregnant/)

[Lauren Groff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-groff/)

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> [I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eudora-welty/i-read-library-books-as-fast-as-i-could-go-rushing-them-home-in-the/)

[Eudora Welty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eudora-welty/)

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> [“Two by two, I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eudora-welty/two-by-two-i-read-library-books-as-fast-as-i-could-go-rushing-them/)

[Eudora Welty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eudora-welty/)

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> [“Stephen King started to read comics first, I started to watch films and little reading books...Now everything has changed Stephen King reads…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deyth-banger/stephen-king-started-to-read-comics-first-i-started-to-watch-films/)

[Deyth Banger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deyth-banger/)

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> [I try to make time for reading each night. In addition to the usual newspapers and magazines, I make it a priority…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-gates/i-try-to-make-time-for-reading-each-night-in-addition-to-the-usual/)

[Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-gates/)

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> [“She’d opened the book she bought today. She’d started to read, from the beginning, quite quietly, out loud. It was the best…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ali-smith/she-d-opened-the-book-she-bought-today-she-d-started-to-read-from-the/)

[Ali Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ali-smith/)

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                        "text": "“Stephen King started to read comics first, I started to watch films and little reading books...Now everything has changed Stephen King reads books and watch films, I read comics, watch films, read books listen to audiobooks... This are two different stories, you were challanged to open them, good job you open them now but can you try to start a new life?? To start by opening a new book?? Meeting with new characters?? With new writers?? With one new book which has a story which you haven't heard?? Probably, you aren't still ready!”",
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