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Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha.

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.

Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.

If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick.

I don't read all the newspapers.

Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.

I tell my agent that I want to read everything.

The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get paid millions to read the news on TV. And, yes, it is insane. And there is nothing I can say beyond acknowledging my immense good fortune, and being aware that I'm blessed, and aware that it isn't going to last forever.

Allthough that doesn't happen often lately, I like to read exciting thrillers and those kinky magazines.

I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.

In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.

Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.

I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read.

When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys.

My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him.

You know, for years I used to read about myself. They'd say, 'He has a temper' or 'He's a bully' or something like that, and it always bothered me.

If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.