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If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it. — Ambrose Bierce
I had people read it early on and, you know, well-meaning people said to me, you should take out the blogs. I didn't get much… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of… — Jan Karon
I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way… — Jamaica Kincaid
I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea. — Jamaica Kincaid
At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I… — Jamaica Kincaid
I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty. — Richard Ford
I don't read fiction at all. — Brent Spiner
I'd much rather talk about guitar playing. I hate it when people ask me about my lyrics. I always feel like telling them to just… — James Hetfield
It is impossible to read in America, except on a train, because of the telephone. Everyone has a telephone, and it rings all day and… — Bertrand Russell
Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite… — Bertrand Russell
If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely. — Arthur Helps
I never know how to give advice to a writer because there's so much you could say, and it's hard to translate your own experience.… — Sue Monk Kidd
First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way… — Nicholson Baker
When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry. — Nicholson Baker
While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted… — Nicholson Baker
E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out… — Nicholson Baker
Something rubs off from everything you read, observe, and tinker with. — R. F. Delderfield
Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the… — Jonathan Sacks
Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What… — Jonathan Sacks
Whatever the theologians might say about heaven being in a state of union with God, I knew it consisted of an infinite library; and eternity… — Dervla Murphy
Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I… — Hu Shih
Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it. — Trevor McDonald
As an author, I realise, you're on your own. You have to do everything you can to help The Book. If I make sure people… — Tibor Fischer
I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even… — Diane Wakoski

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