I spend a lot of time reading.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

I first found delight in the Sabbath many years ago when, as a busy surgeon, I knew that the Sabbath became a day for personal healing. By the end of each week, my hands were sore from repeatedly scrubbing them with soap, water, and a bristle brush. I also needed a breather from the burden of a demanding profession.

I read a lot. I enjoy reading a lot.

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

My dad kind of liked racing and motorsports, but wasn’t a big fan, it wasn’t like he watched every race or whatever.

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

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

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

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.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

I would never want a book’s autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

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.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

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 never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I’ll leave those things to the men.

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.

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

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.

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.

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!

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

All right, then, I’ll go to hell.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

I was a chemistry major, but I’m always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.

I became a beach bum.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

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

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn’t think I could read, much less write.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

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?

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

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

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.‘

No book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

The first book I ever really read was Plato’s ‚Republic,‘ and then I had to go over that five times or something.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

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

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.

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

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.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Every 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.