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Reading is the creative center of a writerâ€™s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of… — Stephen King
I have friends who read my books in Greek. — Brian Lumley
German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real… — Brian Lumley
I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even. — Robert B. Parker
If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve. — David Sedaris
Of course the sands of Present Time are running out from under our feet. And why not? The Great Conundrum: 'What are we here for?'… — Brion Gysin
I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about. I don't know… — Christopher Isherwood
I read assiduously. I kept in touch with my species. — Leonard Michaels
The sanserif only seems to be the simpler script. It is a form that was violently reduced for little children. For adults it is more… — Jan Tschichold
For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time… — Siegfried Sassoon
Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do — Wilfred Owen
Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way — Isaac Rosenberg
I'm not an educated man, but I've read some history. Every kingdom comes up bloody. Every castle is built on a pile of bones. When… — Mickey Cohen
Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read… — Leslie Fiedler
But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when… — Nigella Lawson
I also try to read all of my fan mail. A lot of them send me candy, which I'm not allowed to eat 'cause my… — Justin Bieber
I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free -… — Barry White
I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to work. — Glenn Frey
As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And as a philosophical… — Michiko Kakutani
But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take. — John Clellon Holmes

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