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A book's alright when the weather's foul and there's nothing else to do, but why sit and read when the wind is calling your name? — Mercedes Lackey
When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels… — Meg Rosoff
How could anyone not want to live when there were so many things to live for? There were rainy nights and wind and the slap… — Michelle Magorian
I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men.… — Wynton Marsalis
I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism,… — Mahatma Gandhi
I read very little contemporary anything. — Alan Furst
If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the lulav. — Gary Shteyngart
It wasn't for children, seventh grade. You could read the stress of even entering the building in the postures of the teachers, the security guards.… — Jonathan Lethem
Though we have clear and full scriptures in the New Testament for abolishing the Ceremonial law, yet we nowhere read in all the new Testament… — George Gillespie
I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. — Emile M. Cioran
To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation. — Emile M. Cioran
What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it. — Yoweri Museveni
Though people may read more into Ulysses than I ever intended, who is to say that they are wrong: do any of us know what… — James Joyce
No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel.… — Peter Ackroyd
I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear… — Ayumi Hamasaki
It is only in the morning that one should marry, read unfavourable reviews, make one's will, beat one's servants, and so forth. — E T A Hoffmann
I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it — David Byrne
I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing… — John Cage
Every morning I wake up and I tell myself this: It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. I don't know when… — Gayle Forman
Harry Potter achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a… — Maureen Johnson

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