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To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all, — Harold Bloom
Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world. — Northrop Frye
I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.' — Salman Rushdie
Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don't join fashionable 'schools of thought.' Read everything. — Zadie Smith
Plate glass... has no beauty of its own. Ideally, you ought not to be able to see it at all, but through it you can… — Isaac Asimov
Many adults, whether consciously or unconsciously, find it beneath their adult dignity to do anything as childish as read a book, think a thought, or… — Isaac Asimov
Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote… — Margaret Atwood
Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying. — Stephan Pastis
If you're from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with 'Peanuts.' It's sort of the template for the modern strip. Its influence ceased… — Stephan Pastis
I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one. — Randall Munroe
I just know I'm too much of a wuss for Stephen King's books. I'm way too chicken to read horror. — Stephenie Meyer
All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read… — Stephenie Meyer
What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking… — Stephenie Meyer
I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well. — Kurt Cobain
Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience, if we would… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it. — Theodore Sturgeon
I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree. — Bobby Fischer
I love to travel, but when I really want to escape, I read a book. — Jean Craighead George
Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days. I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life… — Neil Peart
I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She… — Alison Bechdel
But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu. — Alison Bechdel
To me, one of the greatest triumphs in doing a book is to tell the story as simply as possible. My aim is to imply… — Ezra Jack Keats
I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts. — Jonathan Lethem
Signatures of all things I am here to read. — James Joyce

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