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Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill… — Samuel West
I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it. — Ahmet Zappa
I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so I… — Cecily von Ziegesar
I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young -… — Gabrielle Zevin
I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness. — V.S. Naipaul
My husband is old-fashioned and kind, he does the greatest Sinatra impression, and I'd never have written anything if he hadn't read all those bedtime… — Allison Pearson
I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought. — Vaclav Havel
He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the world's two great… — William Manchester
The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books… — Fran Tarkenton
You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it,… — Fran Tarkenton
I don't think I've read any of the books that have been written about me. — Hillary Clinton
If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they… — A. N. Wilson
I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places that would take… — James Herbert
You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered… — Chevy Chase
Americans have never quite digested television. The mystique which should fade grows stronger. We make celebrities not only of the men who cause events but… — Joe McGinniss
I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out. — Leslie Charteris
I've been accepted at Cambridge University. I want to study Chinese history and archaeology. I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese… — Lou Gerstner
My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But… — Vincent D'Onofrio
All real and wholesome enjoyments possible to people have been just as possible to them since first they were made of the earth as they… — John Ruskin
Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge.… — Sivananda
We are great mysteries. No matter what we imagine we may know, even for all the facts we might gather, we don't know each other.… — Garrison Keillor
And don't think that by eating freedom fries you are being patriotic and helping the war effort. Use less gasoline, read a newspaper. You know… — Tina Fey
[Not parroting.] My old Master used to say, "It is all very good to teach the parrot to say, 'Lord, Lord, Lord' all the time;… — Swami Vivekananda
I have not the courage to search through books for beautiful prayers. . . Unable either to say them all or choose between them, I… — Therese of Lisieux
Prayer is always acceptable to God when dictated by the heart, for the intention is everything in his sight; and the prayer of the heart… — Allan Kardec

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