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To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.
— Louise Penny
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In America, people of a certain age ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked,…
— Marisha Pessl
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Johnny can get down and Johnny can throw up, but Johnny can't read.
— Don Henley
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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Read as much as you can, discarding negative or disturbing information. Learn by doing, and the Goddess and God will bless you with all that…
— Scott Cunningham
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I believe the term "blog" means more than an online journal. I believe a blog is a conversation. People go to blogs to read AND…
— Michael Arrington
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If you listen to the news, read the news, you'd think we were still in a recession. Well, we're not in a recession. We've had…
— Dan Quayle
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What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?
— Francis Collins
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Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close…
— David Leavitt
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I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the…
— Camilla Lackberg
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So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.
— Donna Leon
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If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.
— Jim Leach
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I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal,…
— James Laughlin
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Dance music is Madonna's base. It's what she likes, it's what she listens to. It's not anything other than that. She doesn't read what's on…
— Guy Oseary
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A psychic once read my palm and told me I was my mother's mother in a past life. Isn't that weird?
— Chynna Phillips
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Studying design has made me a much, much more astute observer of this aspect of business. And I'm working mightily to improve my empathic skills.…
— Daniel H. Pink
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As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only…
— Ridley Pearson
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I'm about to read Scott Turow's 'Innocent.' I've been hungry for this book since he first told me it was in the works. I'm a…
— Ridley Pearson
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I was asked to do a reading of 'G.B.F.' and I loved the script. I thought it was one of the most amazing things I'd…
— Sasha Pieterse
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Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them…
— Tamora Pierce
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I'd love to say I made the smart decision of picking projects that became hits, but with 'The Good Wife,' I read the script and…
— Archie Panjabi
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I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book and enjoy the…
— Audrina Patridge
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I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it,…
— Danica Patrick
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Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.
— Daniel Pinkwater
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You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.
— Daniel Pipes
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