I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

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

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

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.

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

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

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.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

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.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

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.

It’s very difficult to read a book on your computer.

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

Thanks 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.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

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

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

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

Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

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

To describe my scarce leisure time in today’s terms, I always default to reading.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.

If you look at ‚Blade Runner,‘ it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

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

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

A home without books is a body without soul.

The proper study of mankind is books.

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That’s the pitch. We’ll see.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

When I was making ‚Star Wars,‘ I wasn’t restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, ‚I’m going to create a world that’s fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.‘

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

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.

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.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

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.

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

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.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

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

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 was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

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.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.