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You could say I'd rewritten the same novel three times and I thought I had to move on. The success of the book, and then… — Kazuo Ishiguro
The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws,… — Thomas Jefferson
Those who donâ€™t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose… — Thomas Jefferson
It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself. — Thomas Jefferson
The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an ever-existing original, which… — Thomas Paine
You canâ€™t learn to write in college. Itâ€™s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you doâ€”and… — Ray Bradbury
Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of… — John Hume
The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you. — William Dean Howells
It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One… — William Dean Howells
I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs, — Laura Marling
I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The Bible is the… — John Quincy Adams
I have myself, for many years, made it a practice to read through the Bible once ever year.... My custom is, to read four to… — John Quincy Adams
When I was at the University of California at Berkeley, I went to some classes that must have had more than four hundred students in… — Stephan Pastis
My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he did not care… — Booth Tarkington
They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read. — Lana Del Rey
I've been to Hell. You've only read about it. — Marquis de Sade
I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade... the rivers of… — Marquis de Sade
You know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button. — Homer
Books are useless! I only ever read one book,Â To Kill a Mockingbird,Â and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds!… — Homer
One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer. — Robert Fitzgerald

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