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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.
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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
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I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
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I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
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I never read in bed, only in my study.
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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.
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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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.
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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 -
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.
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I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors.
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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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.
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I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.
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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.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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