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

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

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.

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.

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.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

I spend a lot of time reading.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

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.

When you’re young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

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

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

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

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

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

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished.

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

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

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

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

How well he’s read, to reason against reading!

I’ve written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television – there wasn’t a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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

I am not a fan of books.

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

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

I’ve only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They’re all I need, and the rest I can do without.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

I would always want printed books.

I went to an extreme for literary purposes because I felt all the self-help books out there were so gooey and Pollyanna-ish and nauseating. It was making me angry.

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

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

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

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

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it’s not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

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.

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

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

Sadly, I do my homework. I’ve a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I’ll read C. Fred Bergsten’s defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It’s embarrassing to admit.

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.

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

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

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

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.

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

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.