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Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well. — Mao Zedong
You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw where I would… — David Chase
The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable. — Julian Barnes
I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something. — Jonathan Safran Foer
I remember when I was very young, I read an article by Fats Domino which has really influenced me. He said, 'You should never sing… — Mick Jagger
A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people. — Greg Egan
You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be… — Gregg Easterbrook
Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or even abused, while others feel that my… — Jeannette Walls
Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are… — Patricia Briggs
It bothers me to read the comments of leaders of the Hamas and others who hate America that their goal is to have more weaponry… — Don Nickles
I've read that a naked eye can see six thousand stars in the hundred billion galaxies, but I couldn't believe it, what with the sky… — William Least Heat-Moon
I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was… — Kate Bush
Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long. — Douglas Coupland
There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that… — Flannery O'Connor
I can’t remember how many times I advised students to stop writing the sunny hours and write from where it hurts: No one wants to… — Anne Bernays
Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives. — Charles Wheelan
The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by… — Walter Benjamin
I'd read somewhere that nine out of ten adults in Alaska had a drinking problem. I could believe it. Snow, ice, sleet, wind, the dark… — T.C. Boyle
A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read, which usually means… — Northrop Frye
Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the speaker and the… — Mohammed Dib
I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column. — W. P. Kinsella
I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game. — W. P. Kinsella
Read, read, read, read and then read some more. — W. P. Kinsella
I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors. — Jen Lancaster
Having your book edited is like watching your cat being operated on. It's uncomfortable and someone is probably going to get hurt. Most likely the… — Jenny Lawson

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