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I used to read Gore Vidal books and think I was cool. — Matt Smith
A really good uniformed cop has tremendous people skills, and they learn how to read people. — Titus Welliver
The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy… — Alice Sebold
Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about… — Anne Enright
There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and locked away until… — Anne Enright
Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of… — Andrew O'Hagan
I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult… — Cheryl Mendelson
I like to read in my own house, in any of the rooms I always mean to paint or otherwise improve and never do. Every… — Marilynne Robinson
I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less… — Marilynne Robinson
I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative… — Kevin Wilson
Character is always my driving force. And to tell a good story and to provide an entertaining read. — Monica Ali
Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life. — David Nicholls
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because… — James Fenton
What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so that, in principle,… — James Fenton
One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arrive with a book, but I almost… — Simon Hoggart
My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside… — Mark Helprin
Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write. — Jon Scieszka
When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time I… — Jon Scieszka
If somebody takes the time, a: to read a book that I have written, and then to b: care about it enough to write me… — Lois Lowry
I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut. — Louis Sachar

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