I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
Augusten Burroughs

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
Augusten Burroughs

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
Ezra Pound

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Ezra Pound

Read my lips: no new taxes.
George H. W. Bush

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

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Jackie Collins

I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.
Jackie Collins

I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
Jackie Collins

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.
Jackie Collins

Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.
Jackie Collins

If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.
Alicia Keys

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
Jean Anouilh

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.
Lynn Abbey

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.
Lynn Abbey

I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
Barbra Streisand

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
George Herbert

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson