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While we read history we make history.
George William Curtis

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
John Selden

May, Others, Books

Whenever I read stories of people doing huge pranks on set, all I think is, 'These people have too much time on their hands.' Besides, I don't want to make some poor assistant clean up someone's trailer after I've filled it with, say, Cadbury eggs. See? I can't even think of a good prank.
Amy Poehler

Time, Good, Someone

I'm reading a lot of different books, but I always think I have to switch it up a little bit. It's like food - everything in moderation, same with my books, same with my reading. You read books that are good for you and you learn a lot of stuff, then you read 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' which is like candy.
Shay Mitchell

Good, Food, Different

Today begins a new saga in my life which I expect to strengthen me and allow me time for reflection... I plan to write music while in prison, read and pray regularly and will come out a stronger, more confident woman.
Lil' Kim

Life, Music, Time

I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books. He came with Conan Doyle. I tried, and I liked it. I think the first I read was 'The Sign of the Four'; 'Study in Scarlet' was the next one. Then I guess I stayed home a few extra days from school to read.
Henning Mankell

Home, School, Father

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
E. L. Doctorow

Work, Someone, May

I just got my phone back yesterday. My mom had it for two days. I was supposed to read a book and I really wanted to play Call Of Duty.
Chloe Moretz

I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.
Mary MacLane

Line, Walt, Whitman

It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.
Mary MacLane

Pain, Book, Young

I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook.
Kamala Harris

Time, Mother, Child

As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them.
Piers Anthony

Bad, Done, Found

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.
Piers Anthony

Fun, Potential, Fiction

I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.
Piers Anthony

Good, Hope, Waiting

I taught my son to read with tabloids. We would sit to read the 'Weekly World News' together.
Errol Morris

Together, Son, Sit

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.
Glenn Frey

Life, Love, Age

Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Successful, Trying, Write

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Children, Words, Put

I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I'm a fast reader.
Reese Witherspoon

Play, Kids, While

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.
Theodore Sturgeon

Important, Nobody, Poorly

I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.
Denise Mina

Bad, Thought, Find

None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.
Denise Mina

Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.
Denise Mina

Book, Write, Clever

My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.
Jo Nesbo

Great, Writing, Before

When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.
Mariska Hargitay

Sleep, Night, Enough

To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.
Maria Mitchell

Book, Hard, Thought

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
James Earl Jones

Great, Mind, Human

I just can't read music.
Kate Smith

I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life.
Giancarlo Esposito

Life, Love, Silence

So often, I read scripts and am like, 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious.'
Shailene Woodley

Life, Funny, Real

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