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

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

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

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.

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.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

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

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring… ‚How to Build a Boat.‘

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I grew up reading science fiction.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

I’m not a very creative person, you know? I’m not really an art person. I’m not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.

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

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

A home without books is a body without soul.

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

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

Whether I’m at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I’m looking forward to reading.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

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.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

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.

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.

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.

I read poetry to save time.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it’s always just one person encountering the book, it’s not an audience, it’s one to one.

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.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

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

I am not a fan of books.

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

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

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.

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

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

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.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

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.

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

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.