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From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. — Groucho Marx

Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects. — Edward M. Lerner

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life. — Marcus Aurelius

Made by Hand is impossible to set down once you start reading it. — James Gurney

You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading. — Harvey Keitel

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page — Laurie Halse Anderson

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum. — Joe Orton

President-elect Lincoln to his confidants: "The people of the South do not know us. They are not allowed to receive Republican papers down there. — Harold Holzer

I was reading a book ... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down. — Tim Vine

Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

The more you read, the more you calm down. — Robert M. Pirsig

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839] — Edgar Allan Poe

I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend. — Jami Attenberg

You fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought ... — John Geddes

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something. — Eric Schmidt

I marveled at how they were all closed up, asleep with their secrets unseen until you reached up and took the book down from the shelf. — Deborah Lawrenson

I loved this place when I was a kid. I still love it, but when I was a kid I'd take the bus down here and spend all day long reading in this room. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

You've got to try and not let it keep you down. Sure, let it hurt but don't let it harm you. — S.A. Tawks

In great thick dusty books he read
And hardly ever went to bed
Before it was eleven.

- One Day When They Had Settled Down — Mervyn Peake

Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down. — Carla H. Krueger

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself. — Abraham Lincoln

Reading is almost exactly like a cartwheel; it turns the world upside down and leaves you breathless — Katherine Rundell

The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write. — Albert Einstein

She kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face. — Alan Hollinghurst

If I were you, I'd stick to the palm reading. Now, there's a trick that won't paralyze you from the neck down. — Angela Cervantes

Last night. I couldn't put that book down. I was awake till four this morning finishing it. I didn't know reading could be like that, I had no idea. — Jill Mansell

On my bed, I sit down and flip through the cut-up books one by one, reading all the cut-up passages. — Jennifer Niven

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat. — Lord Byron

Life is full of wonderful passions that come and go over the years, but the only one that will never let you down is reading. — Judith Martin

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. — Samuel Butler

That's what sofas are for: sit down, drink a cup of tea, talk of literature. At least that's how I see it. — Sophie Divry

For me there is wonder in reading. Some stories take my mind down exciting, winding paths it has never been before. — R.J. Snow

I listen to a lot of Christian music, and reading my Bible calms me down immensely. — Lolo Jones

Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other - made up - people's problems and conflicts made my own seem less terrible, less real. — Heather James

Your readers should be so compelled to read your copy that they cannot stop reading until they read all of it as if sliding down a slippery slide. — Joseph Sugarman

Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity. — Aaron Swartz

Slow down. Make a point of revisiting passages that seem especially rich, or especially confusing, or for that matter especially offensive. — Alan Jacobs

Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself. — Marcus Aurelius

If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all. — Francois Fenelon

Sit down, have a nice cup of coffee read a book in another language - the fountain of youth! — Stephen D. Krashen

My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers. — Ronald Reagan

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door). — William Maxwell

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it. — J.D. Salinger

From the book:
Fall On Your Knees pg. 124
One day, I'll sit down with all my books around me, and just start reading. — Ann-Marie MacDonald

At least books could never let you down. — Rebecca Raisin

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back. — John Green

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down. — Agnes Repplier

I'm a book girl
I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down. — Mizuki Nomura

The whole point of straws, I had thought, was that you did not have to set down the slice of pizza to suck a dose of Coke while reading a paperback. — Nicholson Baker

When entering a library, I never forget to bow down! — Avijeet Das

Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it's when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author. — Steve Maraboli

I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs. — Amy Plum

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own. — Beverly Cleary

The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse ways to kill time. — Mortimer J. Adler