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I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens.

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life.

I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn't know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed.

I sort of try to read the books when they come out impartially and not make up my mind, but the fact is when I was reading the sixth, 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince', there were bits in there where I was going, 'God, I would love to do that because it's so good'.

I don't usually read reviews.

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.