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This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.

I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.

I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read.

The music wasn't going to happen, and I realized I had read so little. I didn't know my way around any century. I was very under read.

E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop.

I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you.

I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.

I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.

I'm aware of 'Twilight,' but I've never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold - why do a vampire story about abstinence?

The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script.

I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It's called Silver Needle. It's unbelievably expensive, but I get it on the Web.

It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.

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

As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

I honestly do feel - and I hope I don't gag anybody if they read this - but I feel like I'm one of the luckiest people in the world.

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the world of romance, which I have since never left. Also, the world of the first-person narrative.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.

I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

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

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.

I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.

Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.

Whenever I'm offered something, I always read the script and meet the director. I still appreciate just being considered.

I do get the comics online I guess but it's such a pain. I'd rather just get them in the paper and read them.

I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.

There is a generation of skimmers. It's not that they don't want to read in-depth content, but they want to evaluate what the content is before they commit time. Especially on a mobile phone - you don't have the phone, or cellular data, or screen size to be reading full-length content.

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

I've read every one of Donald Goines' books. So as soon as I heard there was an opportunity for one of his novels to be turned into a movie, I jumped at the opportunity.

I'm not really a director for hire. You read these scripts and go, 'This is a really great script, but Paul Greengrass would make this so much better than me.' I usually say, 'I know who would be good for this. It's not me.'

As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances.

I didn't look at any of the newspapers, I look at the pictures sometimes, but apart from that I don't read them.

I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.

At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

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

When I'm feeling a little empty in the head, I like to go see movies or read to loosen things up there.

I don't listen to what people say about me and I don't read what they write about me. People can compare me to anyone they want to, but I'm not going to worry about it.

I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research.

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

I try my hardest not to read reviews.

You can't write if you don't read.

I don't usually read reviews.

I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.

Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do.

' The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his books because they're true, but because they ought to be true.

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people.

If you read novels of the 19th century, they're pretty experimental. They take lots of chances; they seem to break a lot of rules. You've got omniscient narrators lecturing at times to the reader in first person. If you go back to the earliest novels, this is happening to a wild extent, like 'Tristram Shandy' or 'Don Quixote'.

When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.