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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. — Mark Twain
I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about… — Anne Tyler
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. — Gore Vidal
I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more… — Alice Walker
Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability… — Steve Wozniak
Look at the way celebrities and politicians are using Facebook already. When Ashton Kutcher posts a video, he gets hundreds of pieces of feedback. Maybe… — Mark Zuckerberg
Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll… — Arnold Lobel
... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer) — Arthur Schopenhauer
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. — Albert Einstein
The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. Most of the books were out of… — Richard Brautigan
And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those words out, to… — Audre Lorde
Were we, also, hiking along some cosmic journal page? Were the events about us all part of a message we could understand, if only we… — Richard Bach
These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them… — Ray Bradbury
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them. — Flannery O'Connor
In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have been astonished by… — Natalie Goldberg
There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students read this book… — Kurt Vonnegut
What a glut of books! Who can read them? — Robert Burton
It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the… — Charles Bukowski
Have you really read all those books in your room?â€ Alaska laughing- â€œOh God no. Iâ€™ve maybe read a third of â€˜em. But Iâ€™m going… — John Green
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I… — C.S. Lewis

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