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  • Arthur C. Clarke Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Ben Jonson Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand,
    To read it well: that is, to understand.
    Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio I, To The Reader, lines 1-2.
    ― Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • 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
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Malcolm X Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.
    ― Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • George Holbrook Jackson Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
    ― George Holbrook Jackson
    British journalist, writer and publisher (1874 - 1948)
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  • Peggy Noonan Read good, big important things.
    ― Peggy Noonan
    American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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  • Gustave Flaubert Read in order to live.
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    French writer (1821 - 1880)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Read much, but not many books.
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • George H.W. Bush Read my lips: no new taxes.
    ― George H.W. Bush
    American politician and president (41st) (1924 - 2018)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Francis Bacon Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
    ― Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Samuel Johnson Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
    ― Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William Faulkner Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
    ― William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Carmen Agra Deedy Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.
    ― Carmen Agra Deedy
    American author of children’s literature
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  • Carol Berg Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing.
    ― Carol Berg
    American writer of fantasy novels (1948 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.
    ― Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Angela Carter Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
    ― Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • John Locke Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
    ― John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Barton Seaver Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.
    ― Barton Seaver
    American author and chef (1979 - )
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