To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

I got interested in reading very early, because a story was read to me, by Hans Christian Andersen, which was ‚The Little Mermaid,‘ and I don’t know if you remember ‚The Little Mermaid,‘ but it’s dreadfully sad. The little mermaid falls in love with this prince, but she cannot marry him because she is a mermaid.

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.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited – that has music and rhythm and time.

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.

A home without books is a body without soul.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

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

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

I had not expected ‚A Brief History of Time‘ to be a best seller.

The first book I ever really read was Plato’s ‚Republic,‘ and then I had to go over that five times or something.

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

To the man who reads ‚Scouting for Boys‘ superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

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

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

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

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.

I read a lot. I enjoy reading a lot.

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

I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.

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.

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

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

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.

Shakespeare didn’t work at all for me.

I can’t tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I’d done so much reading.

It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

‚Mystic River‘ just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.

Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.

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.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

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

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

The book you don’t read won’t help.

I cannot live without books.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

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

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.

If there’s a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it’s not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there’s a house rumor, they’ll find out it’s not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

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

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.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

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

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

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.

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

For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.