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I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing. — Katherine Paterson
While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so… — Dick Cavett
Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men. — Sojourner Truth
I`m down to Earth, a lover of music, making music and making love. I love to make people happy and I think I`m basically a… — Duff McKagan
I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could. — Marjane Satrapi
We tell each other stories to help each other live. That’s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That’s why I went… — Marie Howe
I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am happy, when I… — Carolina Herrera
I don't think we've got the gospel right yet. What does it mean to be 'saved'? When I read the Bible, I don't see it… — Brian D. McLaren
Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders… — John Legend
The Jaguar's Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it. — John Burnham Schwartz
I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the natural world. Now… — John Burnham Schwartz
I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED… — Ja Rule
Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about. — Caitlin Moran
We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our… — Tullian Tchividjian
I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked. — A. Scott Berg
And when we go to church, read our Bibles, have our quiet times, and go to Christian conferences, we too can build some impressive spiritual… — Richard Stearns
One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we… — Jonathan Gottschall
I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and don't get to… — Richard Denney
I've always said if somebody wrote a book and they took their whole life to learn that knowledge in that book, why you won't just… — Jeff Olson
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody. — Abraham Verghese
I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it, you… — Bobby Orr
I read the 'Times' and 'Post,' but I have nothing against the 'Daily News.' I also fish around the Internet for entertainment news but find… — Andy Cohen
I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time. — Deborah Tall
I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I… — Zoe Kazan

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