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

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 was a very keen reader of science fiction.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours – and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

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.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

I cannot live without books.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

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?

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

How well he’s read, to reason against reading!

I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching and reading.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

To the man who reads ‚Scouting for Boys‘ superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

I’m the only person you’ve ever met who has read Longfellow.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they’re just infested with lots of stuff.

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.

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.

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

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

I am a part of everything that I have read.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

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

If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

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

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

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

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

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 the government ever imposes a tax on books – and I wouldn’t put it past them – I’m in dead trouble.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

I’ve loved reading all my life.

A reader can never tell if it’s a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you’re reading it, they’re the same. It’s a thimble. It’s in the book.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

It is not Kafka’s fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.

I’m terrible at reading scripts. I love to read, and I hate reading scripts.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

Books are alive, you see. They’re not dead, they’re alive.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

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.