Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.

I'll never read every single book or go to every single place. But I'll die in the trying of it.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

If you've read 'Dark Ecology,' you'll know there's a whole thing about cats in it, more than once.

My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.

I don't have an Instagram or anything like that. I have Twitter for work and also to read my news.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

The number of people who read a poem is not as important as how the poem affects those who read it.

Finding new books to read and relaxing is what I enjoy when I do have some time to spend on my own.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.

Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.

I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.

I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.

The music I listen, the book I read, and the people I meet; these are some things that keeps me going.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

I read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what I read.

For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print.

All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.

I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and put it down.

In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.

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

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

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.

I really like to read when I'm eating - 'The New York Times' or the 'Wall Street Journal,' paper version.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Back in the '60s, there was a car sticker that read, 'Forget Oxfam, Feed Twiggy,' but I ate like a horse.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

During long car rides to the set, after I study my script, I go onto my iPad to read books and play games.

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