I would always want printed books.

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

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

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.

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.

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

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

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

‚Classic.‘ A book which people praise and don’t read.

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.

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

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.

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.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author’s world.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I’ve got books I need to read.

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

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

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.

I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

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

If 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.

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

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

Certainly 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.

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.

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.

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

I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I’ve read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it’s the same.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

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.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

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

I am not a fan of books.

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.

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.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

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

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

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn’t write? But that fortunately hasn’t proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

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.

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.

I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

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

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

I read a lot. I enjoy reading a lot.

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

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

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.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.