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  • Guess I've been reading too much fantasy. -- Aprilynne Pike
  • From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment. -- Miguel de Cervantes
  • Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right. -- Jim Harrison
  • There's no reason anybody should be reading too much into 'Thrift Shop.' I just have because I have a 10-year-old and a 7-year-old who are really into going to lyric websites, hitting print, and printing lyrics for every song that's popular. -- Al Madrigal
  • You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff. -- Frank Crane
  • My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government. -- John Sharp Williams
  • When I'm in heavy-duty writing mode, there's something great about reading a series. Soothing, but not distracting too much. -- Lauren Willig
  • As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that. -- Stanley Crouch
  • Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. -- Albert Einstein
  • Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy. -- Landon Donovan
  • I wasn't able to do much reading when I was chairman of the Reserve Board. The workload was too large, and the luxury of reading was not available to me. So I caught up a good deal when I left office. -- Alan Greenspan
  • I try not to think too much about an audience when I'm writing the first draft of a book - at that stage, the prospect of anyone reading what I've written would be enough to scare me into setting my laptop on fire. -- Robin Wasserman
  • I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking. -- Vikram Seth
  • I generally don't walk out of films. If I start a book, and I don't love it by page 100, I will stop reading because it's just too much of a time commitment. But you never know with a movie what's going to turn around. -- David Dobkin
  • It can be very frustrating and very deflating to be constantly defined and described by other people, so I've stopped reading anything written about me, and I find it much healthier. I just sort of concentrate on what I do and don't worry too much about that. -- Ani DiFranco
  • If the parents are too busy to read, it's a safe bet the children will feel the same way. Set aside time for family reading each night. It doesn't matter so much what the kids read, as long as you provide them space for reading and a sense that it is a valuable part of your daily routine. -- Rick Riordan
  • If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit. -- Terry Pratchett
  • I don't think my writing has much to do with my age. For me, my biography is more about what I was reading at what age. It's more of an intellectual thing of wanting to be free to write and think without being too bound by categorisation. I don't think I'm made for these times; I feel more like an old-fashioned writer. -- Helen Oyeyemi
  • The problem with a life spent reading is you know too much. -- Josh Lanyon
  • Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it. -- Stephen King
  • I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading. -- Dorothy Parker
  • In tactics, no information is better than too much....because at some point the players stop reading and stop thinking. -- Giovanni Guidetti
  • I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading. -- Sarah Orne Jewett
  • One more thing: don't spend too much time merely reading. The best part of this work is the play, so play and enjoy! -- Gary Gygax
  • What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job. -- Charles Stross
  • For me, reading has to be pleasurable. Otherwise, I'm ditching the book and turning on Netflix. There's way too much good TV right now to write dull. -- Christopher Noxon
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