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Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

While I filmed the 'Walker, Texas Ranger' series for eight and a half years, I had never had much time to read, except for screenplays of the episodes.

There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones.

I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.

The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more exposure and readers. And a lot went on to read my other work. It was a wonderful thing for my bank account.

By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals.

Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way.

It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.

I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.

It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.

When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.

Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.

Recently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel.

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.

Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.