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Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.

Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.

I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.

I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book.

One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

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 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.

Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

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.

I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.

Don't classify me, read me.

I'm not that into reading. If I'm gonna read, I'm gonna read some cool sci-fi book or something, not some stupid self-help book.

But I like all the books. You've got to read them all to get the complete Harry Potter experience.