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I don't open the newspapers (to see what's written about me). I don't read them and you can see them hanging at the stand outside… — Sachin Tendulkar
The BIBLE - banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit it, dictators… — Charles Colson
Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours. — Mark Doty
I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published. — Fred Saberhagen
Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun. — Fred Saberhagen
It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year. — Scott McCloud
Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read — Marilyn vos Savant
When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read… — Dermot Healy
Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing. — Yanni
And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're… — Jim Bakker
Someday it will dawn on man that woman does not read the wonderful books with which he has filled his libraries, and though she may… — Esther Vilar
A good book written for children can be read by adults — Norton Juster
I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did… — Norton Juster
FBI Girl is a gorgeous, sumptuous book. Conlon-McIvor takes a subject (herself and her family) that might have sunk in other hands, beats egg white… — Alexandra Fuller
I've heard people say it looks as if I don't care and I've certainly read that, but the way I play is natural. I don't… — Rio Ferdinand
Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order… — Rio Ferdinand
David Grossman may be the most gifted writer I've ever read. [To the End of the Land is] powerful, shattering, and unflinching. To read it… — Nicole Krauss
The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read. — Guy Kawasaki
In thinking of light, if we can think about what it can do, and what it is, by thinking about itself, not about what we… — James Turrell
I was interested in how we engage the world. How do we use our skin as our eyes? If you read a cityscape or a… — Olafur Eliasson
I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing.… — Alice Hoffman
David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her… — Terry Southern
If you make people uniform, you can control them. If you teach people to read, and think, and question things, you lose control. So, the… — Jacque Fresco
I didn't want to teach my kid how to read, so I used to read to him at night and close the book at the… — Jacque Fresco
I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true. — Jean M. Auel

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