There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Ray BradburyRereading we find a new book.
Mason CooleyThe worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
John WoodenIf you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV you're not considered well viewed.
Lily TomlinFrom the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
Groucho MarxI must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on I go to the library and read a good book.
Groucho MarxYou don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ray BradburyYou cannot open a book without learning something.
ConfuciusRead the best books first or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David ThoreauAny book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya AngelouThe book you don't read won't help.
Jim RohnReader suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark TwainThe oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel ButlerI read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
Mason CooleyYou have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.
Dr. SeussEither write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin FranklinNo matter how busy you may think you are you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
ConfuciusIf I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand before I mix with other people, otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
Anne FrankThe books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
Anatole FranceWhat is reading but silent conversation.
Charles LambIt is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Oscar WildeTo buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Arthur SchopenhauerI 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.
Groucho MarxA great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
Mason CooleyReading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert EinsteinI never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar WildeLiterature 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.
Helen KellerAny man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert EinsteinI used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction, reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?
Ray BradburyThe difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar WildeThere 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.
Gilbert K. ChestertonA person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
Mark TwainI wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it I get up.
Benjamin FranklinAge appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis BaconEvery time there's a revolution it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
Mike TysonIt's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.
Mike TysonReading, 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.
Jean-Jacques RousseauIt is always the unreadable that occurs.
Oscar WildeHow well he's read to reason against reading!
William ShakespeareWith all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops, or the shelves of holiday houses, to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
J. K. RowlingIf 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.
Ray Bradbury