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When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.

I think that as is true in this industry, everything gets blown out of proportion because it's more fun for people to read about. It's even more fun to read about if the stories get wilder and wilder.

I try not to read the blogs or what people say about me. Because that's what brings everybody down - no matter what you do, you're always going to have haters.

I just know I'm too much of a wuss for Stephen King's books. I'm way too chicken to read horror.

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'

Sometimes when I read about my rebellion in print it sounds a little overrated.

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black?

If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.

I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on.

I think women love to read love stories.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.