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

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can’t even lift them.

When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents‘ boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing ‚Amazing Stories,‘ with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it’s always just one person encountering the book, it’s not an audience, it’s one to one.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

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.

Shakespeare didn’t work at all for me.

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.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever. I’m not really book-smart.

I read the ‚Old Testament‘ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‚The Origin Of Species‘, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

‚Mystic River‘ just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

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

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.

Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

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

I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I’ve read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it’s the same.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

I don’t know if I officially proofread my father’s book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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

I’m always reading the next book. Taking notes. Highlighting, researching, studying. It doesn’t stop.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

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.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

Read with care, George Orwell’s diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

I’m tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

I got interested in reading very early, because a story was read to me, by Hans Christian Andersen, which was ‚The Little Mermaid,‘ and I don’t know if you remember ‚The Little Mermaid,‘ but it’s dreadfully sad. The little mermaid falls in love with this prince, but she cannot marry him because she is a mermaid.

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

When you read, I’m sure you don’t realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don’t do that.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn’t found interesting things to do.

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn’t write? But that fortunately hasn’t proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

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.

I haven’t read Horowitz. I didn’t used to read him when he was a Stalinist, and I don’t read him today.

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