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I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can. — John Denver
I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She… — Ann Richards
I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes — M. John Harrison
You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them aside in disgust… — Michael Swanwick
We feel an affinity with a certain thinker because we agree with him; or because he shows us what we were already thinking; or because… — Lydia Davis
To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule if necessary, to use the dictionary a lot, to look up… — Lydia Davis
To me, a lawyer is basically the person that knows the rules of the country. We're all throwing the dice, playing the game, moving our… — Jerry Seinfeld
I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn… — Ruth Ann Minner
I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustnâ€™t read Stalin. I read him when… — Che Guevara
See what's inside a drop of water. The whole seed of the universe. Come, come. See what's inside a drop of blood. The composition of… — Manuel Rivas
Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript, though maybe a teleprompter… — David Herbert Donald
One of the most sensitive expressions of hope, capacity for change and potential vehicles for institutional health that I have read in my career in… — Scott Harshbarger
This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of… — Ted Kooser
Jesmyn Ward left her Gulf Coast home for education and experience, but it called her back. It called on her in most painful ways, to… — Natasha Trethewey
First rule about vampires, don`t believe anything you read. — An Na
In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless combining of a… — Robert Olen Butler
This is my only and permanent complaint, that vulgar people, empty of the Spirit of God, want to judge solely by their human thinking what… — Meister Eckhart
A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image. For my own work, when a picture looks labored and… — Helen Frankenthaler
I'm not presumptuous enough to feel that people are going to feel what I have in mind, so I tell a story, you know, let… — Faith Ringgold
Meg Gardiner is one of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. Phantom Instinct should go to the top of your 'to-be-read' pile. — Karin Slaughter

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