To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Always read your contract. Know what you're getting yourself into. Know your worth.

I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.

For whatever reason, you gravitate to certain subjects, and I read a lot of history.

Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.

I don't read blogs. I'm living the life they're writing about. So why read about it?

I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

When your mom and dad read the paper, they like to know their sons are on the roster.

Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.

I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

I encourage a lot of young women to read. I tell them that it will change their lives.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Most evenings I'll light a few candles, get snuggled on the sofa, and read a magazine.

I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Wole Soyinka's 'Death and the King's Horseman' is a play I go back to and I read often.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

I had never seen 'Vogue.' I didn't read fashion magazines, I read 'Time' and 'Newsweek.'

Honestly, it's terrible, but I don't know if I've ever really read a Stephen King novel.

The truthiness is, anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news 'at' you.

I think 'Shoe Dog' by Phil Knight is the best memoir I've ever read by a business person.

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

My dad taught me to read by reading comic strips in the Saturday paper and Archie comics.

The media, and how we're taught to read it, has a huge impact on who we become as people.

No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don't consider myself a dull subject.

I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

I've read that some people believe I don't respect the fans' opinions, but that is not true.

I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.

I speak three other languages - Serbian, French, and Italian - but typically read in English.

You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.

I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards.

I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.

The most basic definition of fluency is simply the ability to read text accurately and quickly.

The people who read the history books tend to have a natural zeal and are alarmingly well-read.

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

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

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