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Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it. — Jean Paul
Live always in the best company when you read. — Sydney Smith
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties… — Charles Caleb Colton
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. — Winston Churchill
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that… — William Bennett
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. — Gene Fowler
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true… — S I Hayakawa
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. — Athenaeus
Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really thought… — Carol Gilligan
One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it. — Ferdinand Mount
I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite,… — Robert Atkins
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it. — John Witherspoon
Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was… — Robert Reed
I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours. — John Hope
A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor… — James Harrington
I lived in a region in the northwestern province - the people there in general have a great love for the Taliban, so I started… — John Walker Lindh
It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how… — Robert B. Parker
Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be. — George Pierce Baker
My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill. — Geoffrey Rush
The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to… — George Muller

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