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The more I learn and read about the 10th Muse i realize what a great fan base and cult following she has. I'm going to… — Cindy Margolis
I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't… — Pam Houston
The Bible is still the only dirty book I've ever read, at least in its current incarnation as a weapon of the homophobes. Bible scholarship… — Paul Monette
You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an… — Brian P. Cleary
There are a lot of good books around. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows… — Lemmy Kilmister
SeÃ¡n Manchester is, unsurprisingly, very well read in both classical and more recent sources on vampires and vampirism, and cites them with great authority while… — Joe McNally
A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the round-the-clock coverage on… — Jeff Greenfield
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments… — Marilyn Hacker
He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of… — George Steiner
I read once that the true mark of a pro â€” at anything â€” is that he understands, loves, and is good at even the… — Paul Halmos
The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score. It exists fully only in… — Rebecca Solnit
We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people… — Gabrielle Zevin
Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear… — Nelson Goodman
The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that it… — Terry Eagleton
I don't read reviews or interviews or anything, just because I'm afraid; If I believed the good, then I'd believe the bad, and there will… — Sia Furler
Char Miller's lively, insightful account of the life and world of American forester Gifford Pinchot fills a vitally important gap in environmental and conservation history.… — Carolyn Merchant
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand. — Ben Horowitz
But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the… — Anne Tyler
When I read, I'm purely a reader — Anne Tyler
There are two kinds of books in the world--the boring kind they make you read in school and the interesting kind that they won't let… — LouAnne Johnson

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