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If you love to read, if you love nature and if you have a dog, you've got it made. — Brooke Astor
Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It… — Hilary Mantel
We read to find life, in all its possibilities. — Claire Messud
Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of every one I… — Susan Hill
Parents should leave books lying around marked â€˜forbiddenâ€™ if they want their children to read. — Doris Lessing
If you read, you can learn to think for yourself. — Doris Lessing
If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into themselves, and those… — Jonathan Franzen
The place of stillness that you have to go to to write, but also to read seriously, is the point where you can actually make… — Jonathan Franzen
I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to… — Diana Gabaldon
I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters.… — Anita Diament
Are thing really gettin' better like the newspaper said/What else is new my friend, besides what I read/Can't find no work, can't find no job… — Marvin Gaye
And it is that one percent, the heads of large corporations, who control the policies of news media and determine what you and I hear… — Assata Shakur
I'm more Jewish than you think I am...I read the part of the Bible that said the Jews are God's chosen people. — Rick Perry
I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us. — Mary Chapin Carpenter
I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools the casebook method… — Gerry Spence
But nothing has replaced the writer. He or she is still stuck with the same old job of saying something that other people will want… — William Zinsser
People read with their ears, whether they know it or not, — William Zinsser
Labor unions should study and read the Bible instead of asking for more money. When people get right with God, they are better workers. — Jerry Falwell
God considers this land to be his. You read the Bible and he says 'This is my land,' and for any prime minister of Israel… — Pat Robertson
I say this with all respect so that it don't upset you too bad, but I say it anyway. When I read in the Bible… — Kenneth Copeland

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