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If I were to read about me purely on Twitter, I wouldnâ€™t know what to make of me. — Jeremy Scahill
People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne Lamott believe it… — Kevin Brockmeier
One of the West's singular migrations--from the Azores to California's Great Central Valley--is given faces and voices in Anthony Barcellos's new novel, Land of Milk… — Gerald Haslam
When you read Marx (or Jesus) this way, you come to see that real wealth is not material wealth and real poverty is not just… — Grace Lee Boggs
I love a novel thatâ€™s funny, and The Taxman Cometh is very funny, delightfully well-written, yet with a serious message about how government bureaucracy affects… — Marvin Kalb
At what price do we get our news? The role of economics in defining the nature of contemporary journalism has never been better explained. A… — Marvin Kalb
Don't believe everything you hear, don't believe everything you read and only believe half of what you see — DMX
Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you want to know… — Larry Heinemann
I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't. — Philip Hensher
It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of neurological… — Philip Hensher
Without him (Jean-Christophe) I would never have understood the splendour of taking free andindependent action as an individual. Up until this stolen encounter with brains… — Sijie Dai
Helen Tse tells a gripping tale of struggle, laughter, love and food that marks Sweet Mandarin as a must read book. It is not only… — Ken Hom
Anne Barton is a delightful new voice in historical romance! Once She Was Tempted is a charming read, with characters who are easy to love--a… — Tessa Dare
If you care about this country, if you want to take part in a citizenâ€™s movement that helps heal the deep racial, economic, and cultural… — Connie May Fowler
The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your amazement, you can… — Tim Wynne-Jones
In my commencement address I gave the language and sources of the prophetic utterance made by the Prophet Joseph that the Constitution of the United… — Ernest L. Wilkinson
The best thing about conceptual poetry is that it doesnâ€™t need to be read. You donâ€™t have to read it. As a matter of fact,… — Kenneth Goldsmith
Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin… — Sven Birkerts
The books that matter to me...are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself. — Sven Birkerts
If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work may be read.… — Frederick Busch

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