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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.

Kate Voegele

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

Lisa Tuttle

I've been doing interviews for years, and in all that time, I've virtually never read one and gone, 'Yep, factually and tonally that's exactly what happened.' Pretty much never.

Martin Freeman

I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the time.

Rebecca Sugar

I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books to be read aloud, and I think of myself in that oral tradition.

Louis L'Amour

I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world - and I'm lucky to see so much through cycling.

Marianne Vos

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

Charles Olson

John Preston: You're an offender! Reading Room Proprietor: I'm not! John Preston: No? Then why are you so scared of me?

Equilibrium

Detective Rhonda Boney: Well, we have our first clue. [holds an envelope that reads Clue One]

Gone Girl

Leonard Shelby: I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next.

Memento

David Mills: You've read my files, right? You've seen the things I've done? William Somerset: No.

Se7en

Cowardly Lion: Read what my medal says: "Courage". Ain't it the truth? Ain't it the truth?

The Wizard of Oz

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [after reading his grandfather's notes] IT... COULD... WORK!

Young Frankenstein

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

Sasha Alexander

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

William Lyon Phelps

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Tryon Edwards

America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou.

Ben Shapiro

No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.

Felix Dennis

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

Jack Prelutsky

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

Marilyn Hacker

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

Nicholson Baker