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“I read "The Yoga Sutras" every day.And also the "The Bhagavad Gita." Those two books sit by my bed.”

“I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream - if I may so call it - of being a race leader dawned.”

Ifs May Dream Literature Race Leader Slavery

“I read "Women Heroes of World War I" and was absolutely astonished. When we imagine women serving in the First World War, mostly we think of Red Cross nurses, but here I was reading about women serving as front-line soldiers, women serving as war journalists . . . and women who worked undercover as spies.”

Thinking World War Reading Imagine Hero Soldier Journalist War Of The Worlds Nurse World War I Spy First World War

Author:Kate Quinn

“I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.”

Firsts Gone First Time University Treasure Islands Realised Sequels Treasure Island

Author:Andrew Motion

“I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic.”

Years Strong Crime Years Ago Details Punishment Panic Recalls Paranoia Crime And Punishment

Author:Arthur Smith

“I read 'Dracula' in high school. I've been around vampires forever.”

School Forever High School Vampire

Author:Denis O'Hare

“I read 'Scarlett' recently, and that was a killer comic book. The 'Black Widow' was pretty rockin'. There is a big list of killer chicks that are just rockin'.”

Book Bigs Black Lists Comic Killers Comic Book Chicks Widows Black Widow

Author:Stana Katic

“I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.”

Soldier Good Soldiers

Author:Ned Beauman

“I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.”

Stories School Lost High School Moved Sentences Lost Love

Author:Tom Perrotta

“I read 'Time', 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist'.”

Economist

Author:Nelson DeMille

“I read *old* novels. The reason is simple. I prefer proper endings.”

Reason Simple Novel

Author:Diane Setterfield

Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

“I read [The Women's Room] in my 20s, and I was like, "I understand this now." And now I've become a mom and read it again and truly understand on a different level what one of the main characters goes through as a mother.”

Different Character Mother Levels Rooms Mom Different Levels Main Characters

Author:June Diane Raphael

“I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.”

Reality Fighting Bits Fantasy Ordinary Hills Odd Fascinating Farmers Saga Troll Ordinary Things Fantasy And Reality

Author:Jonathan Stroud

“I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.”

Book Kids House My Family Reading Books

Author:Amy Tan

“I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same.”

Art Book Reading Clear Art Of Loving

Author:Alice Munro

Source: Something I've been meaning to tell you: thirteen stories

“I read a book in the late 1990s called The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, by Erich Fromm, and it had a profound impact on me. Fromm takes Descartes' statement, "I think, therefore I am" and changes it to "I effect, therefore I am."”

Thinking Humans Book Effects Late Impact Profound Statements Anatomy Destructiveness Fromm

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.”

People Book Agree Senses Dull

Author:Bobby Fischer

“I read a book not to find its meaning, but to find my happiness.”

Book

Author:Carson Cistulli

Source: Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”

Inspirational Book Whole Reading Changed One Day Whole Life Relatable

Author:Orhan Pamuk

Source: The New Life

“I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that.”

People Thinking Book Able Figures Interviews Killers Psychiatrist Serials Serial Killer Thesis

Author:Tom Araya

“I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.”

Inspirational Firsts Book Ends Funny Reading Middle Reading Books Speed Reading

Author:Gracie Allen

“I read a Bruce Lee quote that shifted how I'm trying to live my life right now. He said, "Some targets are only meant to be aimed at." Right? And I took that to mean a shift for myself from goal orientation to path orientation.”

Trying Mean Said Goal Path Right Now Target Meant To Be Living My Life Orientation

Author:Will Smith

“I read a column by George Will that SCARFACE should be rated X because parents were taking their children to see it. So what? Why should the motion-picture industry be responsible for our morality? Dad says to Mom, `SCARFACE is in town.' `What's it about?' `Human scum who kill each other over cocaine deals.' `Sounds great! Let's take the kids!'”

Should Humans Children Kids Parent Sound Deals Mom Industry Dad Morality Towns Responsible Columns Cocaine Being Responsible Motion Pictures Scum Scarface

Author:Ian Shoales

Source: I gotta go: the commentary of Ian Shoales

“I read a comment [about me] on YouTube that I thought would upset me — ‘Test pilot for pies’ — but I’ve always been a size 14-16 and been fine with it. I would only lose weight if it affected my health or sex life, which it doesn’t.”

Ifs Sex Loses Fine Tests Weight Size Upset Affected Comment Pilots Pie Youtube Lose Weight

Author:Adele

“I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn't want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought, "Maybe I'll get better and eventually please the person who wrote about my singing." But then I thought, "I probably will never please this person. I should just do what pleases me."”

Thinking Want Should Firsts Persons Made Please Singing Get Better Comment Please Me

Author:Bette Midler

“I read a fair amount [of science fiction], and you know it was certainly inspirational. I have to pinch myself to think that we might be able to make some of [what I've read in science fiction books] come true.”

Thinking Knows Book Might Able Fiction Amount Fairs Science Fiction

Author:Richard Branson

“I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.”

Stories Law Republican Slavery Slave Abraham Funny Story

Author:Marion Barry

“I read a great deal, avoided the comapny of the children in school who seemed superfical, and fell in love with nature.”

Children School Deals Avoided Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.”

Variety Genre

Author:Nora Roberts

“I read a lot - surveys of vernacular music. A lot of it is the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music, which I've loved since I was in high school. They had it at the library and I always thought that was interesting, even when I was into punk and stuff. Just the history of storytelling and the amount of melancholy a lot of old music has.”

School Interesting High School Library Storytelling Melancholy Punk Folk Music

Author:Bradford Cox

“I read a lot and fell in love with comics and science fiction. I even self-published some of my comics when I was 16 or 17.”

Self Fiction Science Fiction

Author:Toni Jerrman

“I read a lot by female psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé, who wrote prominent biographies of Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud because she studied with all of them. She had this unbelievable insight into contemporary psychoanalysis. What is so interesting is that she wrote her life, and she knew that her life would be about these men, and it didn't stop her from leading an incredibly successful academic career. But her strange self-awareness that she was going to bookmark these men's lives is really interesting to me.”

“I read a lot. I love books. If they came in a bottle, I'd be a drunk too.”

Reading

Author:Alyxandra Harvey

Source: Bleeding Hearts

“I read a lot of 'Spark Notes' in high school.”

School High School Notes Sparks

Author:Lauren Conrad

“I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading.”

Different Night Three Reading Middle Needed Phones Tales Cycling Middle Of The Night Insomniac Canterbury Canterbury Tales

Author:Rick Moody

“I read a lot of Agatha Christie's that fall of 1938 - maybe all of them. The Hercule Poirots, the Miss Marples. Death on the Nile, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Murders .. on the links, .. at the vicarage, and.. on the Orient Express. I real them on the subway, at the deli, and in my bed alone. You can make what claims you will about the psychological nuance of Proust or the narrative scope of Tolstoy, but you can't argue that Mrs Christie fails to please. Her books are tremendously satisfying.”

Agatha Christie Amor Towles Rules Of Civility Katey Kontent

Author:Amor Towles

Source: Rules of Civility

“I read a lot of archaeology and early history in a general way, not thinking particularly of this book, and this provided me with the background. It showed me how, possibly, the people lived back then.”

People Thinking Way Book Backgrounds Archaeology

Author:Naomi Mitchison

“I read a lot of articles about young women in the resistance. All of a sudden, I felt that if I go too much into this horror, then I won't be able to start as a fresh character.”

Ifs Character Able Young Felt Too Much Horror Resistance Articles Young Women

Author:Carice van Houten

“I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.”

Book Backgrounds Biographies

Author:Wilbur Smith

“I read a lot of books for information, like doctor books, spy books. . . .”

Book Information Doctors Spy

Author:William S. Burroughs

“I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from.”

Writing Long Book Certain Three Feet Six Projects Notes Cards Passages Gestures Shelves Assistants Highlights

Author:Lawrence Wright

“I read a lot of books. So, usually when I go home I try to re-charge my batteries and absorb new stories to become inspired again.”

Trying Book Stories Home Inspired Batteries

Author:Mia Wasikowska

“I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.”

Kind Book Found Teacher Happened One Day Library Comic Best Things Upset Comic Book Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me

Author:Walter Dean Myers

“I read a lot of conservatives. They are thoughtful and intelligent and annoying, and I always read them because they have viewpoints that challenge my own, even thought they are wrong. But this does me no good because, being intelligent and sophisticated human beings, they are all contemptuous of Trump. They hate him. They find him...vulgar.”

Hate Challenges Intelligent Thoughtful Annoying Sophisticated Vulgar

Author:Gene Weingarten

“I read a lot of detective stories because they always deliver. They give you a beginning, a middle, and an end - a resolution. The modern novels I read don't always deliver because I'm looking essentially for a story. As in Shakespeare, "The play's the thing." In particular I read detective stories for pacing, plot and suspense.”

Giving Ends Play Stories Novel Modern Middle Particular Suspense Plot Resolution Detectives Pacing Detective Stories Modern Novel

Author:Robert Cormier

“I read a lot of different stuff, but I keep being open to inspiration.”

Different Inspiration Stuff

Author:Pete Carroll

“I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.”

Romance Night Quality Clear Atmosphere Prose Doomed Lyrical Stylist Tender Is The Night Scott Fitzgerald

Author:David Nicholls

“I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.”

Writing Children Littles Book Lasts House Fantasy Century Green Series West Favourite Pioneers 19th Century Runaway Laura Wilder Green Gables American West Favourite Book

Author:Tracy Chevalier

“I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.”

Church Path Intellectual Catholic Conventional Catholic Church

Author:Ross Douthat

“I read a lot of ghost stories because I was writing a ghost story. I didn't think at all I was writing a horror or a thriller or whatever because it is about a ghost, whereas a horror film can be about aliens or things that rise out of the marsh that have no human shape.”

Thinking Writing Humans Stories Film Horror Shapes Ghost Aliens Thrillers Horror Film Ghost Stories Marshes

Author:Susan Hill

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