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Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.

The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it's the overall meaning that matters to me. It might escape some people who just want to read a comic, and that's fine. The overall meaning is what matters.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time.

To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.

If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.

In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.

I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.

I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.

But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

To read too many books is harmful.

I never read reviews at all. I'm proud of the work I did.

I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though I used to say I wanted men to read the strip even though there weren't any men in it, so they'd be forced to identify with the women.

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

My mother insisted that her children read.

I'm so interested in the brain. I read true crime.

I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.

One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us.

It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer.

But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.

I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.