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Imagine that everything you are typing is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that it's all going to be seen by your parents and your grandparents and your grandchildren as well.

People don't see this side of me. They don't know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality.

The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.

I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

Every year I tell myself that I'm not going to read any reviews and then I do. We're all human and when I read something negative it hurts. I think when you write it's part of the game, you're going to get some good reviews and some bad reviews and that's how it goes. I don't write for the reviews.

And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!

I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.

I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did.

I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.

As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.

I read murder mysteries. I exercise 40 minutes a day. I watch videotapes while I exercise. I listen to audiotapes when I am in my car. And I try to stay in three different centuries.

I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.

Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share.

If you'd rather go to the football game than read a comic, that's fine. I'd rather do both.

People will read into what you say no matter what, so it doesn't matter to me.

Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my own stuff, either the novels or newspaper columns.

I like to read and write and take pictures and bike.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.

I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.

Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.

I was one of the first to read the 'ER' script and the good news is George Clooney still gives me credit for helping to launch his career. I had George Clooney under contract for four years in a row before 'ER' happened. He's one of the few who remembers the people who helped him.

I try to get in quiet time and book time, but really, the only time I ever get that is when I'm on an airplane - I have a fear of flying, but I actually love flying because it's the only time I can sleep, and it's the only time I get to read.

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.