I’m tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

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

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

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

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 cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

I am a part of everything that I have 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 no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

My mother insisted that her children read.

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

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

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

I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.

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.

I cannot live without books.

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.

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.

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.

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

I read all the time, and I’m often struck by something I’m reading.

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

A home without books is a body without soul.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Shakespeare didn’t work at all for me.

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

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

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.

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.

When I was 10 years old, I loved – I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I found a little book I could just afford, and I bought it, and I took it home. And I climbed up my favorite tree, and I read that book from cover to cover. And that was Tarzan of the Apes. I immediately fell in love with Tarzan.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books – and I wouldn’t put it past them – I’m in dead trouble.

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.

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

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

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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.

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

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, ‚The Martian Chronicles.‘

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

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

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

You cannot open a book without learning something.

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

Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

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

To the man who reads ‚Scouting for Boys‘ superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.

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

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

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