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

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.

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

I spend a lot of time reading.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

Just be a cool grandpa who’s creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don’t know how much experience you’ve had with contemporary Hebrew. It’s quite difficult.

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.

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

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha’am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha’am’s essays.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

I’m not a nerd, don’t plan to be a nerd and read books – which I can’t do at all.

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

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

I 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.

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

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

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

I grew up reading science fiction.

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.

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.

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

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

The biggest thing is just routine. I think that’s the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players.

I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.

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

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

I read a lot. I enjoy reading a lot.

I’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

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

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.

The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

The proper study of mankind is books.

The 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.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

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

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

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

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.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

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

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.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy – which many believe goes hand in hand with it – will be dead as well.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

What 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?

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

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.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

I used to rush home to see ‚Match Of The Day.‘ Whatever I was doing, I wouldn’t miss it.

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.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.