Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
Stephen KingA 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.
Margaret AtwoodYou stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.
Jim MattisI’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.
Kurt CobainA 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.
Christopher HitchensLittle 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.
Sunil ChhetriIf I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
Audrey HepburnYou can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C. S. LewisI’m not a writer who teaches. I’m a teacher who writes.
Maya AngelouEvery man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
Aldous HuxleyI am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.
Charles BukowskiI started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn’t until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them.
Paul AusterIf I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!
Richard P. FeynmanWhether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
J. K. RowlingWhen 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.
Paul AusterA writer of fiction is really… a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.
Ernest HemingwayI was a very keen reader of science fiction.
Terry PratchettI’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.
Kevin HartI still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.
Denzel WashingtonAs for hobbies, I don’t really read or watch TV.
Tom BradyI 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.
Margaret AtwoodThanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.
Jim MattisThere is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.
Bill GatesPractically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
Groucho MarxCertainly I’m not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I’m a sponge. I’ve always been a sponge.
EminemBooks like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Samuel JohnsonUpon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Harry S. TrumanAn author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
Benjamin DisraeliLet blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
Warren BuffettTo buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Arthur SchopenhauerI hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
Jean-Jacques RousseauIf 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!
Mr. TI don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever. I’m not really book-smart.
EminemThere are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Ray BradburyThe book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
ConfuciusReading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
Arthur C. ClarkeNature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.
Dr. Seuss‚Classic.‘ A book which people praise and don’t read.
Mark TwainWhen you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.
Douglas AdamsI took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
Woody AllenI’ve had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.
Robert KiyosakiYou’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
Dr. SeussThe two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
William Makepeace ThackerayI wasn’t a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn’t written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.
Madeleine AlbrightI would always want printed books.
J. K. RowlingYou know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.
Jeff BezosThe only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it’s just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.
Terry PratchettIf 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 PratchettI 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.
Noam ChomskyIf you feel that there’s the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can’t, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you’d be a very strange person indeed.
Margaret AtwoodPerhaps 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.
Jim MattisA book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
Franz KafkaThe books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar WildeThe book you don’t read won’t help.
Jim RohnI don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever.
EminemWhat we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas CarlyleBooks are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
ChanakyaBe careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark TwainWhat do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
John Ruskin