People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

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

The proper study of mankind is books.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

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

People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.

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

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.

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

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

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

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

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Libraries raised me.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

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.

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

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

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.

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.‘

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

The most violent show on TV is the six o’clock news.

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

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.

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

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.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

I’m not a nerd, don’t plan to be a nerd and read books – which I can’t do at all.

It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

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

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.

I grew up reading science fiction.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

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

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

I cannot live without books.

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can’t even lift them.

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

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

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

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

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.

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

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

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

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.

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

I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.

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

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

I think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?

I would always want printed books.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

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