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 FlaubertThe 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 WildeSomeday 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 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 SchopenhauerHow 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 AustenI 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 MarxI have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.
George W. BushA great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
Mason CooleyI 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 KellerOne 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 BradburyThe difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar WildeSometimes 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. ChestertonEvery day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. LewisMany 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 ColtonReaders are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.
C. S. LewisThe more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
Dr. SeussI 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 BaconIt is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
Winston ChurchillIf you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading, or do things worth writing.
Benjamin FranklinEvery book is a quotation, and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries, and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThis is the sixth book I've written which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.
George BurnsA truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading I must finish by acting.
Henry David ThoreauTo a poet silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Sidonie Gabrielle ColetteWhen any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects 'This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives.
Robert A. HeinleinA book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
Charles LambReading, 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 BradburyToday's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Gore VidalPromiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
Mason CooleyWhen I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only but now and then I come across a passage perhaps only a phrase which has a meaning for me and it becomes part of me.
W. Somerset MaughamO Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book either without the other is naught.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOne of Edward's Mistresses was Jane Shore who has had a play written about her, but it is a tragedy and therefore not worth reading.
Jane AustenMy readers - and I get 400 emails for a day - my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer you do understand me also. We are in the same level.
Paulo CoelhoRead much but not many books.
Gustave Flaubert