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I find it amusing and entertaining and I've always been a fan of science fiction. I used to read it a lot when I was younger.

Quote by Roger Penrose about humor, fiction, science

So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life.

Quote by Piper Perabo about humor, life

Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about...

Quote by Shimon Peres about love, charm, criticism, wife, thinking, time

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read, he was my personal mentor.

Quote by Shimon Peres about literature

I have a brother younger than me, my mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.

Quote by Shimon Peres about family, mother

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about mathematics, fiction, science, history

I am not a scholar, I've never learnt to write, but only to read from your palms.

Quote by Ionuț Caragea about word

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about opinion, praise, literature, respect, people

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

Quote by William Faulkner about literature

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Quote by Oprah Winfrey about books, age, olderness, world

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

Quote by Jean Anouilh about life, books, history, things

I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.

Quote by Leon Uris about literature, writing

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

Quote by Edna Ferber about literature, writers

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.

Quote by Enrique Jardiel Poncela about literature, writing

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Quote by George Seferis about education, contentment, man

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

Quote by William Hazlitt about opinion, language

Life is too short to read bad books.

Quote by Gerhart Hauptmann about books, bad luck, bad, life

My anxiety poem I write a poem today it will die tomorrow. It rises on its shivering feet of words it catches my attention and pulse as a living creature in another century - higher, unborn - and rises up, upper and upper, from...

Quote by Olimpiu Nusfelean about poetry, silence, attention, common sense, sense, word, death

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Quote by Carol Shields about life

When a new book is published, read an old one.

Quote by Samuel Rogers about books, old, olderness