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So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want… — Diane Wakoski
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read. — Barbara Mertz
I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very… — Barbara Mertz
I don't like to read books where I feel as though I've stepped into the middle of things and don't know what's going on. I… — Jude Deveraux
I read mysteries like Nancy Drew and Alfred Hitchcock, and I swim and I ride my motorbike. — Heather O'Rourke
A novel is too much of a commitment. I tend to peruse Twitter - I check to see if I had any mentions and read… — Kevin Nealon
I think I am done with Wikipedia for the time being. But I have a secret hope. Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue - a bin… — Nicholson Baker
Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a… — Mahmoud Darwish
I have heard Mr. Romney's speech's many times on television and the radio and I have even read his book No Apology: The Case for… — Angela Lansbury
My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and… — Ben Elton
I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't… — Hume Cronyn
You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false. — Charles Olson
It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are… — Guy Debord
I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't… — John Sayles
I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird. — Colonel Sanders
Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale… — James Buchan
My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every… — Janet Fitch
When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can… — Janet Fitch
Men may not read the gospel in sealskin, or the gospel in morocco, or the gospel in cloth covers, but they can't get away from… — Donald Barnhouse
I liked early Amis a lot, but I stopped reading him some time ago. I admire Hitchens on literary topics - I think he is… — Terry Eagleton
I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read. — Christopher Hampton
Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! -… — Christopher Hampton
I don't give books as gifts. Books are extremely personal, and I would hate to give someone a book that they don't like or want,… — Meg Cabot
The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to… — Vince Gill
If people read 'Tomorrow' and feel that it is offering them some view of my own household, they would be very, very wrong. — Graham Swift

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