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When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing. — Blaise Pascal
I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it. — Jacques Barzun
People were always asking for good sound proofs; doubt springs eternal in the human breast, even in countries where the Inquisition can read your very… — Thornton Wilder
I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer. — Colleen McCullough
There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage. — Colleen McCullough
I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it… — Pat Conroy
When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading… — Pat Conroy
Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of… — Francesca Lia Block
Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot. — John Green
I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible… — John Green
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read. — Harold Bloom
To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text. — Henry James
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession. — John Howe
I confess that when I first read that smog is particularly hazardous to children, senior citizens, and physically active people, for a brief moment I… — Paula Poundstone
I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place. — Francoise Sagan
I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to other… — Clive Barker
People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is… — Roger Ebert
Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts… — Barbara Ehrenreich
But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story? — Jimmy Connors
Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it. — Philip Pullman
The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Exploiting the apocalypse, selling… — Ursula K. Le Guin
There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of… — Umberto Eco
I rarely read or buy a book because of a review. — Jim Harrison
The way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother… — Calvin Trillin
I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book. — Calvin Trillin

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