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At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did that!' I don't think I've had a facial since I was 19.

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.

If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived in vain. Great poets might expect the whole body of their work, but most of us - well, I would settle for a handful.

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.

Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.

In high school, I read 'Silas Marner' and I was very attracted to this character - he was very rundown and he'd just stop, and things would happen around him.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

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.