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If you read, you can learn to think for yourself. — Doris Lessing
If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into themselves, and those… — Jonathan Franzen
The place of stillness that you have to go to to write, but also to read seriously, is the point where you can actually make… — Jonathan Franzen
I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to… — Diana Gabaldon
I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters.… — Anita Diament
Are thing really gettin' better like the newspaper said/What else is new my friend, besides what I read/Can't find no work, can't find no job… — Marvin Gaye
And it is that one percent, the heads of large corporations, who control the policies of news media and determine what you and I hear… — Assata Shakur
I'm more Jewish than you think I am...I read the part of the Bible that said the Jews are God's chosen people. — Rick Perry
I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us. — Mary Chapin Carpenter
I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools the casebook method… — Gerry Spence
But nothing has replaced the writer. He or she is still stuck with the same old job of saying something that other people will want… — William Zinsser
People read with their ears, whether they know it or not, — William Zinsser
Labor unions should study and read the Bible instead of asking for more money. When people get right with God, they are better workers. — Jerry Falwell
God considers this land to be his. You read the Bible and he says 'This is my land,' and for any prime minister of Israel… — Pat Robertson
I say this with all respect so that it don't upset you too bad, but I say it anyway. When I read in the Bible… — Kenneth Copeland
In Zechariah 14.. their flesh dissolves away, because of the plague hitting them for coming against the Jews in Jerusalem. When did that happen? I've… — Unknown Author
Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not… — Fredrik Bajer
Many peoples tombstones should read, 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.' — Nicholas Murray Butler
Killing Lincoln is a must-read historical thriller. Bill O'Reilly recounts the dramatic events of the spring of 1865 with such exhilarating immediacy that you will… — Vince Flynn
I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love… — Janet Evanovich
I don't write for an audience. I write for myself. And if I imagine an audience at all, it's the characters, but I know that… — Ursula Hegi
You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history — Iain Banks
Perhaps no other book has been denounced so vigorously by those who have never read it as has the Book of Mormon. — Boyd K. Packer
Our education must never stop. If it ends at the door of the classroom on graduation day, we will fail. And we will need the… — Henry B. Eyring
Without reservation I promise you that if each of you will observe this simple program, regardless of how many times you previously may have read… — Gordon B. Hinckley

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