A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

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.

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.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television – there wasn’t a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

My mother insisted that her children read.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they’re cramming for their final exam.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

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

When you pick up a book, everyone knows it’s imaginary. You don’t have to pretend it’s not a book. We don’t have to pretend that people don’t write books. That omniscient third-person narration isn’t the only way to do it. Once you’re writing in the first person, then the narrator is a writer.

As for hobbies, I don’t really read or watch TV.

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I’ve come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

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.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I’m in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

The product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

It’s not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, ‚Read,‘ but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or, ‚Don’t read, don’t think, just write,‘ and the result could be a mountain of drivel.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

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

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

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.

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.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

All right, then, I’ll go to hell.

We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

When you’re young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that’s powerful.

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

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

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

I think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?

Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.