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  • Sydney Smith I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Peter Ackroyd I never read in bed, only in my study.
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Oscar Wilde I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train
    Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Clarence Darrow I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Ben Gibbard I once knew a girl
    In the years of my youth
    With eyes like the summer
    All beauty and truth
    In the morning I fled
    Left a note and it read
    Someday you will be loved.
    Source: Plans Someday You Will Be Loved
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Bryan Fuller I read 'Red Dragon' back in high school. I love Thomas Harris' approach to the crime thriller that crossed over into horror in a way that nobody really tapped into.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • V.S. Naipaul I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Anna Quindlen I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • William Trevor I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.
    William Trevor
    Irish writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Samuel Goldwyn I read part of it all the way through.
    Samuel Goldwyn
    American producer (1882 - 1974)
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W. Bruce Cameron I read that all dogs have wolf DNA in them, which seemed preposterous because my dog, Tucker, is... afraid of plastic bags blowing in the wind. I thought, 'How can Tucker have wolf in him? How can this be?' So I started researching it.
    W. Bruce Cameron
    American writer and columnist (1960 - )
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  • Aneurin Bevan I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Anne Rice I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Anna Held I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Bill Gates I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
    Source: PC Magazine, 23 June 2008
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Adam Arkin I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • David Bissonette I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.
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