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Personally, I read reviews because I'm interested by them, but they don't have utility for me. — Tom Stoppard

Why are you doing this?" One of his hands caressed the books.
"Because books are made to be read," I told him. "And you like to read. — Katherine Allred

To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. — Stephen Chbosky

It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer. — John Grisham

I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world. — Adeline Yen Mah

I grew up with a very romantic, idealized vision of New York, probably because of all the books I read and the movies I watched. — Adrian Tomine

I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true. — Susanna Hoffs

Time and again, I've met or read about people who succeeded against all kinds of odds because they had passion. You're passion away to win! — Assegid Habtewold

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write. — Red Cloud

I read because I like it. It passes the time and it sucks you in so you don't have to think about anything else. — Amity Hope

It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind. — Helen Keller

I always find it fun to read a script and then find the messages in the script because I believe every story has them. — Shailene Woodley

I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know. — Steve Earle

I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you. — Tom Baker

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words. — Elmore Leonard

The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally. — Gary Gygax

I hope that all critical Muslims read the ruling in full, because it states very clearly what freedom of expression in Denmark is about. — Carsten Juste

Because I don't believe everything I read. — Steven Wright

I don't read reviews or interviews or anything, just because I'm afraid; If I believed the good, then I'd believe the bad, and there will be bad. — Sia Furler

Because I want to read your countenance - turn! — Charlotte Bronte

I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING a book ... on my computer! — Meg Cabot

I read much more that I do anything else. I don't watch too much television, because I like books. — Anjelica Huston

I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to. — Norah Jones

I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once? — Bill Willingham

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. — Stephen Chbosky

I write because the book I want to read has not been written yet. — Richard H.R. Penn

I've been able to read people my entire life, because I've interviewed people now for 20-some-odd years. So you can read people that way. — Sean Hannity

I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read. — Chuck Close

I grew up being very interested in Greek mythology because my mum read to my sister and I. — Isabel Lucas

I write because I have to write; but I also write because there's somebody out there, hopefully, who will read it. — Harley King

How about your favorite book?" "This Side of Paradise by From. Scott Fitzgerald." "Why?" "Because it was the last one I read. — Anonymous

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life. — Leonard Cohen

Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my own stuff, either the novels or newspaper columns. — Carl Hiaasen

I urge you to read what you can, when you can, while you can, and enjoy each page as if it were your last - because it might be. — Ken Kilner

I am known as a one liner man because I don't give chance to people to read between the lines. — Amit Abraham

I would always be embarrassed to read out loud in class because I would transpose words and letters and things. — Charlie Trotter

I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot remember anything anymore. — Hugh Laurie

I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.' — Birdy

Those who read the fiction assume that, because I'm also a historian, I know what I'm talking about. — Saul David

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction. — Irvine Welsh

I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it. — Alasdair Gray

Sometimes I read that I'm not 100 per cent Chinese, because I don't look all that Chinese. That's a strange one - I am Chinese. — Godfrey Gao

Ireally think that the Book Life,After is the best book i've read this year because i really got into it and actually read at home and liked it — Sarah Darer Littman

If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful. — Fran Lebowitz

Did I read because I was lonely, or was I lonely because I started to read? — Grace Metalious

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa. — Umberto Eco

I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, she encouraged me to use my imagination. — Darren Shan

I write stories, because I want to read them. — A.E. Croft

You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up. — Pat Conroy

I read Gloria Swanson's autobiography just because I wanted to know what it was like in the time. — Berenice Bejo

I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently. — Donald Miller

I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language. — Pat Conroy

I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there. — Helen Dunmore

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is. — Brad Thor

Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work. — Ai Weiwei

I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer ... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion. — Italo Calvino

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high. — Haruki Murakami

I don't read reviews, because if you believe the good ones, you have to believe the bad. — Kelli O'Hara

I don't write for money or for my words to be read. I write because it takes me to dark corners in my mind that I was to afraid to go. — Zachary Koukol

I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being with you. — Sarah Rees Brennan

I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught. — Rabih Alameddine

I know because I read. — Libba Bray

Maybe I'm weaker than I thought because I'm feeling something for the guy that I should completely hate. — Calia Read

I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely. — Amy Tan

My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough? — Francoise Sagan

I just don't read reviews, because it can really hurt you. — Toni Tennille

Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through — Mohsin Hamid

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages. — Ferran Adria

I don't want to be confined to one genre of writing because I don't read just one genre. — TaQuanda Taylor

I decided to apply to read English at the University of Oxford because it was the most impossible thing I could do. — Jeanette Winterson

I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews. — Eamonn Walker

People read so much into what I do. It's fascinating to me because some of it's probably there, but I haven't thought of it. — Paul Reubens

[I read news] because no one's going to tell me what they really think of something. — Ed Helms

I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic. — Virginia Madsen

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. — Robert Hass

I hate it when people imply that people only read because they have nothing better to do. — Jo Walton

I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them. — Mick Jagger

I'm not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they've just got too much to lose by printing the truth. You know that ... — Bob Dylan

The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it. — Lil' Wayne

If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all. — Anne Roiphe

I do like to read in bed, but because I have two kids I'm often forced to read in the bathroom. — Eoin Colfer

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read. — Jack Prelutsky

You know, I don't read the blogs, or go on the internet, and I really just don't know what people are saying because ... well I guess I'm afraid to. — Ron Perlman

When I read biographies, I skip the first thirty pages about the childhood because it doesn't seem interesting to me. — Michael Ondaatje

If I read too much or know too much it's not because I want to talk about it, it's only because it's interesting for me. — Karl Lagerfeld

I read the book again that night because I knew that if I didn't, I would probably start crying again. — Stephen Chbosky

I read because one life isn't enough. — Richard Peck

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. — Toni Morrison

I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested. — Melanie Lynskey

I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin. — Steven Spielberg

Will I be less dead because I wrote this poem or you more because you read it long years hence. — Maya Angelou

I can forgive, but no matter how hard I try, the memories never fade. Forgetting is the worst because there's a trigger for every memory. — Calia Read

I write romance because I love to read romance. — Rachel Gibson

I like to read because
it kills me. — Mary Ruefle

I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote. — Joe Strummer

I have lived a thousand lives and I've loved a thousand loves. I've walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read. — George R R Martin

Every time I read a script, I see the movie in my head, and I try to see the best movie in my head because everybody interprets the movie differently. — James Marsden

I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world. — Kirby Bliss Blanton

I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and he thought he was winning! — James Blunt

I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out and bought me one. — Redd Foxx