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- The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.
- Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.
- This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
- The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do…
- Read, read read. Read everything.
- The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to…
- I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
- Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an…
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