There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

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.

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 wasn’t trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn’t have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.

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

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

‚The Lady’s World‘ should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women’s opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.

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

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.

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

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

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

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn’t read ‚Democracy in America‘ by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

If music be the food of love, play on.

Books are alive, you see. They’re not dead, they’re alive.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

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

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

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

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

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

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

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

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

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.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

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.

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.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

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

I read a lot. I enjoy reading a lot.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

I’m not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

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

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

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

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.

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational – and I’m speaking the written science fiction, not ‚Star Trek.‘ Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they’re clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

A reader can never tell if it’s a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you’re reading it, they’re the same. It’s a thimble. It’s in the book.

When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents‘ boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing ‚Amazing Stories,‘ with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination.

You’re not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.

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

My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha’am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha’am’s essays.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

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.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they’re just infested with lots of stuff.

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

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

I think I work much harder on the children’s books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there are more than 30 books in the Discworld series, it is the four that were written for children which have won the awards. I’ve never been quite certain why this is.