The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense.

I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!

I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.

Reading is a key feature in the life of every single successful person I have ever met.

Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading.

One of my favorite times was sitting reading quote books, which I did for hours on end.

The illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves.

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

Who needs a stupid grampa-loving, book-reading, good-smelling boy who I like to talk to?

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Besides one should not believe that the people only want reading that is easy to absorb.

Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.

I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings.

If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books.

There is absolutely no way to increase your income quicker than reading 30 minutes a day

It's the closest I've come to touching immortality, by reading the words of dead people.

I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.

I prefer listening to talking, reading to socializing, and cozy chats to group settings.

Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.

I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.

I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.

I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase.

Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you.

The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find in reading God's Word.

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

They say man he reading rhymes off his iPhone, no I texting your girl meet me at my home

Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.

Stop reading the news for a week; you will see that the world will turn from red to blue!

The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.

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