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If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

I've signed thousands of documents, but never read them.

I don't read Science Fiction.

I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

I cared enough to read and look at and worry about the questions.

I have friends who read my books in Greek.

I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and put it down.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.'

The more I read, to me the more incredible everything is. Based on what I've read, there are all these other dimensional planes and spaces, mathematically proven.

Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.

Like, every couple of months you read, they rewrite, you come back in, they've animated more stuff - they usually videotape you while you're reading it - so they'll incorporate some gestures and some facial expressions into it.

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.

I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.

I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?

When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.

If I could read it, I could play it.

I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.

I haven't read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.

My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it's definitely tough getting through.

And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.