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If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other. — Nikki Giovanni
There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read. — Ross Perot
There was a time when I read a script and I just got excited about the possibilities. — Joaquin Phoenix
The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers. — Judy Blume
My dad had an eighth grade education, and everything that he did in his life was just stuff that he went out and did -… — Unknown Author
Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. — Margaret Atwood
I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so… — Julia Sweeney
I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do. — Emily Watson
I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high. — Haruki Murakami
No one wants to read a math book. — Erin Duffy
Of course I read Braille, yes. — Stevie Wonder
I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war.… — Jane Fonda
Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get… — Michael Haneke
There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever. — Karl Lagerfeld
There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are too hard to… — V.S. Naipaul
I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I try to read… — R L Stine
2012 was the year I saw Twitter as a negative. More people need to realise that not everything they read is true and that Internet… — Katherine Jenkins
I was way too hyperactive to study for long. I would freak out, then crash, then be too tired to read or write. I really… — Mo Rocca
There seems to be such a laziness in - and I hate to use this phrase - the modern world. Everything is pumped out so… — Chris Ware
I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because… — Elisabeth Shue

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