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Write the book you want to read — Austin Kleon
Genealogy of ideas. You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can… — Austin Kleon
I tell myself it does not matter what one reads-favorite authors, particular themes-as long as we read something. It is not even important to own… — Helen Simonson
If you are looking for a lover, a job, a new house, or a serial killer, Snoop is for you. It’s great science and a… — James W. Pennebaker
Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't read a first… — Jill Ciment
You will remember some of what you hear; much of what you read; more of what you see, and almost all of what you experience… — Keith L. Moore
The beauty of what I read in the gospel is the intimacy of what we're called to, that there's no middle man. — Jon Foreman
To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness… — Virginia Woolf
We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space,… — Harold Bloom
Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world. — Ben Okri
Not write what you know, but know what you write. If you write about a world before, after, or other than this one, enter that… — Steven Saylor
Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy scriptures ever have the pre-eminence, and, next to them, those solid, lively, heavenly… — Richard Baxter
Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore. — Lenny Kravitz
This is not a tough job. You read a script. If you like the part and the money is O.K., you do it. Then you… — Robert Mitchum
Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar. — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
You Can't Believe Most of the Quotes You Read On the Internet — Abraham Lincoln
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love, or life. — George Herbert
Read more learn more, change the globe — Unknown Author
Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for… — Adam Zagajewski
Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author. — William Wordsworth
A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace. — J C Ryle
By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a less respectable novelist… — Unknown Author
Whenever I find my will to live becoming too strong, I read Peter Watts — James Nicoll
To read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices… — Susan Sontag
Read the Bible, read the Bible! Let no religious book take its place. Through all my perplexities and distresses, I seldom read any other book,… — William Wilberforce

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