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When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else. — Carl Hiaasen
What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to… — Chris Hughes
When you're looking for a band name, I know it sounds weird, but everything you look at, everything you observe and read, you kind of… — Dave Haywood
I always tend to see, right after reading the script, the character and how I want to play it. I guess that's sort of most… — Freddie Highmore
It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the… — Garrett Hedlund
I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then… — Garrett Hedlund
I used to always read my stuff. And I could never understand why artists would say, 'Oh, I can't read my older stuff.' I'd go,… — Jaime Hernandez
I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book… — Josh Holloway
I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a… — Kamala Harris
I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the… — Margaret Haddix
Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it,… — Marilyn Hacker
If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to… — Mark Haddon
I'm not one of those people who says, 'I never read reviews,' because I don't believe those people. — Marvin Hamlisch
I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and don't remember anything… — Rebecca Hall
To read a character I'm not sympathizing with is generally quite a good, attractive proposition because I've got somewhere to go, I've got work to… — Rebecca Hall
The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high school. — Robert Hass
I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true. — Susanna Hoffs
I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all… — Tom T. Hall
I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something… — Janis Ian
I haven't read the 'Twilight' books. But it's everywhere so I feel like I know it. Edward, Bella, Jacob, etc. but... I haven't read them. — Max Irons
I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my… — Brian Jacques
The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I… — Linton Kwesi Johnson
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling… — Tayari Jones
I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story… — Tayari Jones
We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime. — Bill James

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