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

Books are sharks… because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.

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.

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.

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

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

If you grew up, and you never had a computer, and you’ve never used the Internet, and someone asked you if you wanted to buy a data plan, your response would be ‚What’s a data plan, and why would I want to use this?‘

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

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.

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

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

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

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

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

I read the ‚Old Testament‘ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‚The Origin Of Species‘, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

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.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

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.

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

I cannot live without books.

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

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You’re not out of it until the computer says you’re out of it.

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

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.

I don’t have a computer. A computer’s a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

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

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

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

If I went out to play basketball with other kids, when I came home I’d shower and go right back to the computer again. If there was a birthday party or a family activity, I would take my laptop and spend the whole day there.

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 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.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

My mother insisted that her children read.

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.

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

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

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

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they’re cramming for their final exam.

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.

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.

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 don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

I read a lot. I enjoy reading a lot.

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don’t know what you’re doing.

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

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

It’s not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, ‚Read,‘ but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or, ‚Don’t read, don’t think, just write,‘ and the result could be a mountain of drivel.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don’t think anyone in my family would really feel I’d done them an injustice by saying that. We didn’t see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don’t know how much experience you’ve had with contemporary Hebrew. It’s quite difficult.

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.

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

My father… removed from Kentucky to… Indiana, in my eighth year… It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up… Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher… but that was all.