I would always want printed books.

I’ve just always been a reader.

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.

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.‘

I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.

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

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.

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

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is 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.

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

If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.

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

I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching and reading.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

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

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

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

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

As for hobbies, I don’t really read or watch TV.

I spend a lot of time reading.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it’s always just one person encountering the book, it’s not an audience, it’s one to one.

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

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

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

I don’t read ‚chick lit,‘ fantasy or science fiction but I’ll give any book a chance if it’s lying there and I’ve got half an hour to kill.

The proper study of mankind is books.

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

I read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

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.

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

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

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

I am not a fan of books.

I read poetry to save time.

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.

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

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

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

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

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.

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.

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

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They’re solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

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.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Shakespeare didn’t work at all for me.

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.

Libraries raised me.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

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

I think the definition of a book is changing.