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I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

When I first read the script, I realized that Katie would have to be played as a rather down-to-earth person.

I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!

Yeah, I'm a geek. I read sci-fi and I watch sci-fi films. I love my computer and I love to fix it. I'm a total nerd. I literally am a 12-year-old geeky boy trapped in a 32-year-old woman's body.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

I never read a self-help book except for the Bible.

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

It's nice to know that what you're doing is being read and enjoyed by a good deal of people.

The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.

When I read 'Watchmen,' it changed my view of so many things. It was the first time I'd read a graphic novel really like that.

But in another, I think a woman's going to go into a shop to find a coat or a jacket and I just don't think she's not going to go into a shop because of a bad review she probably didn't even read.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.

I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.

I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.

Right before I got 'Sons of Anarchy,' I actually quit acting for 18 months and didn't read a single script, and I wrote a film. I felt like I needed to do something that I had control over, as an artist, and also just do something where I felt like I had some control over my life, as just a human, out in the world.

I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.

Do codons overlap? In other words, as we read along the genetic message do we find a base which is a member of two or more codons? It now seems fairly certain that codons do not overlap.

In fact I have a full page warning, right in the front of the book, that no one under the age of eighteen should read this book and no one should even turn the pages if they are sexually conservative or erotically deprived.

I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.