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JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
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MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
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You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well un...
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MEGHAN TRAINOR
I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right a... JAMES PATTERSON
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RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH
I had never seen 'Vogue.' I didn't read fashion magazines, I read 'Time' and ... IMAN When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, f...
MADISON PETTIS Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN
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ERINN HAYES
I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance... CAROL ANN DUFFY My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn...
SAM DONALDSON
When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I... GARY VAYNERCHUK I actually don't read comic books. I did when I was a kid - I used to read a lot of 'X-Men&#...
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MAGNUS CARLSEN Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft...
GORDON KORMAN
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. SENECA
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. SENECA
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. SENECA
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take... SENECA
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SENECA
Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. SENECA
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. SENECA I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read chil...
HENNING MANKELL
I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high sc... MATT DE LA PENA I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they ...
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I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, ... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before ...
FRANZ WRIGHT
In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a we... GARTH RISK HALLBERG
I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Gi... DAVE EGGERS I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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JOHN GOULD
I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my ag... MACAULAY CULKIN
I'm not terribly well read. My wife forces books into my hands and insists I read them, which I&... PETER CAPALDI It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, an...
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KENNETH CRANHAM
Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I re... MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be in...
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REBECCA MAKKAI
I just downloaded '1984' for my iPod, but I've read that before. It just hearkens back t... LUPE FIASCO
I've had such a hard time with dyslexia my whole life. When I was a child, I didn't learn to... CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a ... JOHN LE CARRE I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT
I had more pressure when I competed in Moscow. I had no pressure in Montreal because I only went to ... NADIA COMANECI
I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite ... RICHARD K. MORGAN
I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over... CRAIG FERGUSON
In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influenc... POPPY Z. BRITE
I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew somethin... BARBARA CORCORAN
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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister be... DOROTHY ALLISON
Before playing football, I didn't fit in anywhere. My parents didn't have a lot of money, wh... RYAN COOGLER
I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I d... DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK
If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rathe... JAMES HETFIELD When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scie...
SAM TRAMMELL When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.
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DREE HEMINGWAY
I read the script for 'Somnia' when I was filming 'Oculus,' and I remember calling m... KATEE SACKHOFF I read 'Pushing the Limit' and 'Dare You To' by Katie McGarry. Fantastic stuff. I ha...
LORI FOSTER I read books for exams at school, but only because I had to read them, and really didn't enjoy i...
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I didn't know anything about '12 Years a Slave.' Not the book, not Solomon Northup, whic... CHIWETEL EJIOFOR
When I was sent the script for 'Homeland,' I didn't think anything of it. Three months l... DAVID HAREWOOD
I don't wish I started later, but I was never a child star. I was in school every year and had n... HELEN HUNT
As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to... JOYCE CAROL OATES
When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writin... JUNOT DIAZ
When I was on the '70s Show,' I had that and I had 'Punk'd' and I had my own pro... ASHTON KUTCHER
I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with... ANDREW YOUNG School was pretty good about letting me take up music and that's where I had my first musical id...
JAMES BLUNT
I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and... NORTON JUSTER I'm so grateful for the marriages that I have had. I wouldn't be who I am today if I hadn...
CHERYL TIEGS
I never would've tried YouTube if I hadn't had so many doors slammed in my face. LINDSEY STIRLING I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare ...
PATRICIA POLACCO
I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of... CARL SANDBURG It just so happened that my agent called and said, 'There's this movie 'Pitch Perfect.&#...
UTKARSH AMBUDKAR Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did t...
KATE BECKINSALE
I was an educated girl. I'd done very well in school. I had a good point average and graduated f... MARLO THOMAS
When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I w... ANNIE DILLARD If you haven't read 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone', I reckon it's a pretty good p...
ADRIAN MCKINTY 'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams is a great play. I had to read it for school whe...
JAKE T. AUSTIN
I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, ... AUGUST WILSON
I love magazines. I always read 'Time,' 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist.' When... JANINE DI GIOVANNI 'Don Quijote' by Cervantes. I read the original Spanish version when I was in high school. S...
MANIKA People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots o...
KAREN TRAVISS
If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footba... IAN MCSHANE
I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.... IAN MCEWAN I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sym...
DAVID EDDINGS
I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept g... R. A. SALVATORE
