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If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.

In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.

I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.

I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.

But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

To read too many books is harmful.

I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though I used to say I wanted men to read the strip even though there weren't any men in it, so they'd be forced to identify with the women.

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

My mother insisted that her children read.

I'm so interested in the brain. I read true crime.

I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.

One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us.

It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer.

But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.

Don't classify me, read me.

I'm not that into reading. If I'm gonna read, I'm gonna read some cool sci-fi book or something, not some stupid self-help book.

But I like all the books. You've got to read them all to get the complete Harry Potter experience.

To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.

These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?'

I can't read a computer screen and never use a calculator. It's all in my head and by hand.