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I've said to others that there were places I had forgotten about that were just so powerful. I've read the Gospels many times, but it's…
— Michael W. Smith
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I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because,…
— Howard Nemerov
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I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that I had read…
— Anne Rivers Siddons
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About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody to read the…
— Lev Grossman
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I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
— Charles Kuralt
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Many of you already read my writings indicating that TV is the new god. There is a little thing I neglected to mention up until…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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It is one thing to be well-read on a subject; it is quite another to be part of the subject itself. It is an unfortunate…
— Lon Milo DuQuette
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Sometimes it is safer to read maps with your feet.
— Kelly Link
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Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind…
— James Laughlin
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Reading the word and learning how to write the word so one can later read it are preceded by learning how to write the world,…
— Paulo Freire
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I don't open the newspapers (to see what's written about me). I don't read them and you can see them hanging at the stand outside…
— Sachin Tendulkar
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The BIBLE - banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit…
— Charles Colson
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Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours.
— Mark Doty
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I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.
— Fred Saberhagen
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Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.
— Fred Saberhagen
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It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year.
— Scott McCloud
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Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read
— Marilyn vos Savant
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When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read…
— Dermot Healy
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Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
— Yanni
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And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're…
— Jim Bakker
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