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 WoodenEvery 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 MarxThe 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 oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel ButlerYou 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.
ConfuciusLet 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 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 AustenA 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 WalkerEvery 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. LewisThe 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 ColtonReaders are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.
C. S. LewisI 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 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 TysonIf 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 EmersonTo a poet silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Sidonie Gabrielle ColetteA 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 LambIt 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 read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.
William ShatnerIf 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 BradburyPromiscuity 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