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

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

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

When you pick up a book, everyone knows it’s imaginary. You don’t have to pretend it’s not a book. We don’t have to pretend that people don’t write books. That omniscient third-person narration isn’t the only way to do it. Once you’re writing in the first person, then the narrator is a writer.

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn’t until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them.

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

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

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

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

I’ve loved reading all my life.

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

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn’t write? But that fortunately hasn’t proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

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

I’m not an expert on the arms race.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

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

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy’s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

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’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

I cannot live without books.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.

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.

If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

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.

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 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.

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

I don’t know if I officially proofread my father’s book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

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

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.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

I’ve just always been a reader.

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

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

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.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. 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.

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

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

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

Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

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

I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I’ve read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it’s the same.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

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

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

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.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

Libraries raised me.

Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

I don’t read books much.