If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!
John WatersThere are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Ray BradburyRereading we find a new book.
Mason CooleyYou can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C. S. LewisThe things I want to know are in books, my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham LincolnDo not read as children do to amuse yourself or like the ambitious for the purpose of instruction. No read in order to live.
Gustave FlaubertA good book is an event in my life.
StendhalThe 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 TomlinEvery book is a children's book if the kid can read!
Mitch HedbergFrom 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 BradburyThe man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark TwainYou 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 reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Rene DescartesThe book you don't read won't help.
Jim RohnShow me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Napoleon BonaparteReader 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 FranklinIf one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar WildePeople say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan Pearsall SmithWe read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
Rabindranath TagoreSomeday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
C. S. LewisYou’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
Dr. SeussNo 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 great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
David Herbert LawrenceLet us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
VoltaireThe 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 WildeHow pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare, after all, there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!
Jane AustenA 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 WildeOne must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI 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 BradburySometimes 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.
Alice WalkerThere 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 TwainThe World is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.
Saint AugustineMany books require no thought from those who read them and for a very simple reason, they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Charles Caleb ColtonI read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.
Bill GatesI 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 BaconIf you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
Mark TwainWith 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. RowlingPromiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
Mason Cooley