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Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it's just fictional stories for entertainment.

Holly Valance

People

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.

There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

Mike Tyson

Reading

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

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

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

Goh Chok Tong

Reading

Writer

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.