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Am I a technocrat? Im just a guy who went down to the bookstore and bought a couple of textbooks on TCP/IP, which is the… — Neal Stephenson
There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many never have another occasion. Stories… — Mavis Gallant
I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
I never read, I just look at pictures, — Andy Warhol
I myself have read the writings and teachings of the heretics, polluting my soul for a while with their abominable notions, though deriving this benefit:… — Eusebius
Why you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled.Â All our difficulty comes with the others.Â When did you meet a workman who… — C.S. Lewis
A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding its resonance and… — Michael Silverblatt
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound. — Zoltan Kodaly
I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about. — Edmund Wilson
In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice. — Edmund Wilson
Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we… — Banksy
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every… — Henry David Thoreau
If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an organization that advocated "change," we… — Edward R. Murrow
I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when… — Vita Sackville-West
The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers in New York… — Wilfrid Sheed
The Universe story is the quintessence of reality. We perceive the story. We put it in our language, the birds put it in theirs, and… — Thomas Berry
Learning is not automatic. You do not automatically know how to read because you turn five. Most of us are sensitive to the fact that… — Marion D. Hanks
A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and… — Jimmy Breslin
One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem. — Jane Hirshfield
My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV. — Damon Albarn

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