Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.

I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

Women can’t do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

You’re not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.

I often work by avoidance.

It’s tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I’m wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

I don’t read ‚chick lit,‘ fantasy or science fiction but I’ll give any book a chance if it’s lying there and I’ve got half an hour to kill.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

No book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.

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

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They’re solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

‚Classic.‘ A book which people praise and don’t read.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.