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Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't allow the same… — Isobelle Carmody
In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny -… — Poppy Z. Brite
My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted. — Poppy Z. Brite
There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and… — Poppy Z. Brite
I can tell you a graphic difference. In Prague, for example, big red posters were put up on which could be read that seven Czechs… — Hans Frank
Maybe to try to understand not just that we are living in a certain building or in a certain location, but to become aware that… — Andreas Gursky
I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read. — Jack Prelutsky
Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it. — Jack Prelutsky
My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of… — Jack Prelutsky
When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I… — Jack Prelutsky
I am a canvas of my experiences, my story is etched in lines and shading, and you can read it on my arms, my legs,… — Kat Von D
The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life. — Bruno Bettelheim
I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone. When you spend… — Vaclav Smil
It's harder to read code than to write it. — Joel Spolsky
What I do instead is I will cheerfully spend literally hours on identifier names: variable names, method names, and so forth, to make my code… — Joshua Bloch
I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party in an endangered,… — Maile Meloy
Moon Phase Astrology is a valuable resource on a neglected topic. Through the use of descriptive and poetic titles, insightful text, and inspiring historic quotes,… — Christopher Penczak
I was a lonely, frightened little fat kid who felt there was something deeply wrong with me because I didn't feel like I was the… — Kate Bornstein
I have served many long and lonely years aboard ship in war zones, and the only thing that kept me sane during all that enforced… — Don Pendleton
Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine is a warp into the middle of a wildly imaginative mythology and I'm itching to… — Rick Remender
This year, more people will use cocaine than will read a book to their children. — Michael Scott
Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on,… — William H. Wharton
It’s impossible to read The Poison Belt, written in 1913, and not see in its exterminating vision a shadow of the coming war that would,… — Unknown Author
What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world… — Mark Vonnegut
A Touch of Crimson explodes with passion and heat. A hot, sexy angel to die for and a gutsy heroine make for one exciting read! — Cheyenne McCray

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