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My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

When I read Copland, I really wanted Stallone's part.

I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview.

I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.

Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.

But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.

Well, before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books.

I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.

I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.

Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha.

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.

Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.