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I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than… — Mark Twain
One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at… — Henry James
I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole… — Robert Frost
O Lord, may I never want to look good. O Jesus, may I always read it all: out loud and the very way it should… — Theodore Roethke
Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night. — Edmund Wilson
In a narrow market, when prices are not getting anywhere to speak of but move within a narrow range, there is no sense in trying… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read. — Michael Foot
I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done… — Abraham Lincoln
I read some gossip thing saying, because I looked really uncomfortable in a paparazzi photo or something, they're like, 'He should get used to it.… — Robert Pattinson
In this scene, I'm talking about how much I don't like cookies.... I'm sayin', 'Listen, guys. Have you read the book? We're not supposed to… — Robert Pattinson
Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social, economic, and creative,… — E. O. Wilson
Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new… — Henrik Ibsen
When I wake up in the morning and I turn that film on, it's like reading a book and it's exciting. I don't read books,… — Les Miles
Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters. — William Shakespeare
I am a part of all I have read. — John F. Kieran
I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I… — John D. MacDonald
Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are excited by what… — Robin McKinley
I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm… — James A. Michener
There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read… — Charles Caleb Colton
Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that… — Lord Chesterfield

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