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Hobbies are for people who don't read books, — Lissa Evans

Dozens of books. I wonder if she's read them all, or if she just needs them for comfort. Maybe she uses them as an escape from her real life. — Colleen Hoover

The largest two books I've ever read more than once are 'Bleak House' by Charles Dickens and 'The Stand' by Stephen King, about 1,200 pages each. — Simon Toyne

The thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read. — Donald Barthelme

I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it. — Edward Hirsch

I am a part of all I have read. — John Kieran

Some people read books for fun. — Richelle Mead

Sleep is highly overrated, Marmee; especially when there are books to be read. I shall sleep when I am dead and have enough of it. — H.L. Stephens

Why don't you write books people can read?(to her husband James) — Nora Barnacle

The worth of a book is infinite. — Lailah Gifty Akita

READ!READ!READ! Till there are no books left in the world to read! — Erin Hunter

And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books. — P.B. Kerr

I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books. — Rene Magritte

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed. — Gail Carson Levine

I think you have to read a lot. I think if you're going to write about something you better have read at least 100 books on that topic. — Larry Winget

This year my goal will be to learn new vocabulary in English and to read as much as possible books. — Deyth Banger

Does one ever read a politician's books? — Gore Vidal

Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow! — Gabrielle Dubois

Great books make a great life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I read much more that I do anything else. I don't watch too much television, because I like books. — Anjelica Huston

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. — Winston S. Churchill

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know. — Desiderius Erasmus

All I needed to know, all true knowledge, the only really essential knowledge, was to be found in the books I read and the music I listened to — Karl Ove Knausgard

She traced a finger over a splotch of fuchsia silk on her dress. All those books, with no one to read them. — Sarah J. Maas

To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think. — Pearl S. Buck

I've read many more books than you. It doesn't matter how many you've read. I've read more. Believe me. — Nicola Yoon

If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective. — Eric Kandel

When you learn to read you will be born again ... and you will never be quite so alone again. — Rumer Godden

Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation. — Edward M. Lerner

I have travel to sacred places through the pages of books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I vow I shall give all my very best books to the underprivileged, once I have read them — Barbara Kingsolver

If you read Scarlett Avery, you know it's an awesome read! - Mary Johnston — Scarlett Avery

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know. — Alberto Manguel

Of all those books you've read? There's got to be something, somewhere in them, to help us laugh at a situation like this. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story. — Amy Engel

Do not judge a man by the books on his shelf that he has read but by the books on his shelf that he does not reread. — Anonymous

I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic. — Virginia Madsen

'Moby-Dick' really threw me. I read it when I was 14 and my best friends were books. It changed the way I looked at the world. — John Burnside

You read too many books." "No such thing!" I cried, aghast. — Kylie Scott

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books. — China Mieville

Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both. — Carew Papritz

I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun. — Mitt Romney

Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering. — Desiderius Erasmus

I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being with you. — Sarah Rees Brennan

Someone mentioned therapy to me once. I read a book instead. ~ Drew Stirling — Jayden Hunter

I read books to read myself. — Sven Birkerts

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt. — Vincent D'Onofrio

I don't write romance. Read it? Yes. Write it? No. — Cypher Lx

If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed! — Lily Tomlin

Live cleanly, rightly, beautifully. Take walks and read books, laugh and save money...
— A. Ras

I read in one of the gardening books that manure was very good for soil, so I had a shitload delivered. — Kaaron Warren

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it. — Aman Jassal

I love to read books! There are so many authors that I think are really fun to read. — Tom Angleberger

I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do. — Caroline Leavitt

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best. — Ernest Dimnet

I often say that we should only be judged on two things: if we're kind, and if we read books. — Paige Shelton

We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own. — Harold Bloom

I read all the time ... I read a lot of history books. — Mickey Spillane

I was thinking, So, I'm Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now. — Robert Graves

If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight. — Tom Stoppard

You come up and read books?" asked Gregor. "Read them, eat them, whatever mood strikes me, — Suzanne Collins

Jack always had said you knew a person by the books they read ... or didn't read. — Charlaine Harris

Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen. — Alberto Manguel

Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book. — Charles Lamb

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself. — S.A. Tawks

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games. — Ang Lee

We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too. — Nick Hornby

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. — George Bernard Shaw

We go to school to learn what books to read for the rest of our lives. — Robert Frost

I plan to learn enough to read you like a book. — Sylvia Brownrigg

Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered. — Scott Westerfeld

I still like paper books. Like, book is a flammable object. After you read it, you could use it to get warm. Or it could become a pile of napkins. — Demetri Martin

I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure. — Khaled Hosseini

Read good books to improve your life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all. — Anne Roiphe

When I have the Bible memorised, then I'll be able to go and read a couple other books. — Stephen Baldwin

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. — George Bernard Shaw

I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day. — Louisa May Alcott

When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I've found what freedom really means. — Carla H. Krueger

I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce. — Rick Riordan

Read a lot of books and try a lot of recipes," Jia said. "When you learn enough about the world, even a blade of grass can be a weapon. — Ken Liu

I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both. — Jane Yolen

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. — Robert Hass

I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books. — Mark Haddon

Every book is its own black hole. Don't fight the pull; find out where it takes you. — Richelle E. Goodrich

When I die I hope it may be said:
'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'. — Shannon L. Alder

She was happiest when sitting about and reading. She had read thousands of books, seeing no point in doing anything else unless you had to. — Ruth Rendell

Read positive books; see positive things and surround yourself with positive thinkers; life will be full with positivity. — Amit Ray

Well, before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books. — Rupert Grint

I read a lot of books. So, usually when I go home I try to re-charge my batteries and absorb new stories to become inspired again. — Mia Wasikowska

Jack reads too many books. He thinks we're going to drive all year and have great adventures. — Steven Herrick

I need to experience books, not just read them. — Lauren Morrill

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited. — Arthur Schopenhauer

It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book ... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt ... — Ray Bradbury

I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this. — E. Nesbit

I've always loved literature, and the best books I read were always trilogies. — Dawn Angelique

I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books. — Pete Wentz

There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read. — H.L. Mencken

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the fellow who can't read a line. — Mark Twain

There are more writers who read than readers who write. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana