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A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as… — Mark Strand
I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read. — Kate Morton
It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought… — Wendell Berry
I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something. — Kelley Armstrong
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is… — Jorge Luis Borges
Better not read books in which you make acquaintance of the devil. — Reinhold Niebuhr
My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear… — David McCullough
I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even… — Ken Burns
I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores. — Jean M. Auel
I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know. — Jean M. Auel
We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss,… — Elizabeth Drew
I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards. — Roman Abramovich
Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure… — Sarah Vowell
In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read. — Catherine the Great
When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the… — Martin Amis
I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story. — George Brett
I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine — Philip K. Dick
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we… — Philip K. Dick
I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all… — Florence King
I never really read superhero stuff as a kid. — Alison Bechdel
I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times. — Alison Bechdel
Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had… — Alison Bechdel
Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The… — Alison Bechdel
Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow. — Alison Bechdel
My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read. — Richard Avedon

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