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I certainly don't read coverage of me, I read what else is going on that I need to know about to do my job.

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.

I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.

These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.

When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.

If I read or listened to critics of our music, I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.

Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek.

I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

Television's not going read stories to you.

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

The book you don't read won't help.