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The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.

Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.'

I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.

Honestly, I don't read the press. I don't know what they're saying.

There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.

Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it.

When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.

Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.

I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

Anything that I read, I read because I'm interested in it.

I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.

I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.