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Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer. — Avi

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. — Gustave Flaubert

He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays
cynical but hopeful. — Rose Macaulay

We don't lock up books in this house," Philippe said, "only food, ale, and wine. Reading Herodotus or Aquinas seldom leads to bad behavior. — Deborah Harkness

I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad. — Olly Murs

What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?

-Alice in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll

Every time you think of escaping mentally or physically, grab the book that lies inches away from your heart. — Muna Adnan Naqi

Reading my books is like a slice of pie,
You can eat it fast, or slow, the choice is up to you — Janelle R. Moore

study: The reading of books or examination of other materials to gain knowledge. Page 5. — Sean Clouden

A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference. — John Hodgman

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience. — David Levithan

You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two. — Lemony Snicket

If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good. — Jupiter Hammon

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development. — Dave Mearns

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing. — Blaise Pascal

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. — Thomas Carlyle

Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words. — Donalyn Miller

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right. — Alan Arkin

Every time I hear about somebody who wins a never-work-again sum in the lottery but keeps his or her day job I think, not a book person. — Amy Smith

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads. — Sherman Alexie

I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read in, or be read to. — Eudora Welty

I don't trust people without books or questions. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. — Henry David Thoreau

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. — C.S. Lewis

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting. — Harry Golden

There is a book for every walk of life. No matter the age, race, or gender there is something that will appeal to you. — Carmela Dutra

Literacy: Blessing? Or curse? — Charles Frazier

Reading had always been, through bad, boring, or better times, his best connection to humans. — Dan Groat

When you read a book, and who you are when you read it, makes it matter or not. — Ann Hood

People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever. — Salman Rushdie

To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you're not — Jim Rohn

reading - simply reading through books or — Barbara Oakley

Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading. — Bill Gates

Anyone who tells you her life is like a book has either been reading some bad books or is not being straight with you or herself about her life. — M.J. Andersen

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment. — Joe Queenan

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything. — Gary D. Schmidt

I can imagine her memories of the novel, or, more likely, of who she was and how she felt when reading it. — Rabih Alameddine

We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Reading good books doesn't necessarily make one a good person - or a smarter, funnier, or more cultivated person, either. — Maureen Corrigan

To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. — Claude Adrien Helvetius

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've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life. — Juliette Binoche

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism. — Liam Neeson

People like dialogue. Being a part of it or reading it. Me personally, I'd rather write it. — Andrea L'Artiste

You're either reading a book or you're not. — Jonathan Franzen

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few. — Richard Baxter

Hearts are like Books. You cannot understand one by flipping the pages or by reading the last chapter — Alok Jagawat

Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods. — Laurie Halse Anderson

It doesn't matter if you prefer reading James Joyce or "James and the Giant Peach." Those who read more read better. — Danny Brassell

I'm a fastidious bookman and have never liked reading books with library markings or other messy defects. — Larry McMurtry

Love does not choose belief, place, time, situations, or race. love happens between two souls. — Haidji

What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water? — Virginia Woolf

We read books. They make us think. It matters very little whether we agree with the books or not. — Robert Henri

Sometimes I forget myself in a book. And when i have to stop reading it takes me a minute to remember where I am. Or who I am. — Anonymous

Reading takes you places; it is all up to your imagination. The world (or in this case book) is your canvas, go paint it. — BOB

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty. — Doris Lessing

We can read a good spiritual book in search of information or in search of God. We will find only what we're looking for. — Ron Brackin

Remember, when you don't know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It's like reading the I Ching or tea leaves. — Kelly Link

Writing is the voice of the heart' Julia Suzuki — Julia Suzuki

The answer of understanding more books... is reading more. That's the answer or read more creepypasta or listen to creepypasta. — Deyth Banger

I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books or was a horror buff. — Chad Lindberg

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. — Vladimir Nabokov

The reader who fails to ponder, or at least mark, the words he does not understand is headed for disaster. — Mortimer J. Adler

She 'didn't care much for reading', she said. Books were just a commodity that had to be produced, like jam or bootlaces. — George Orwell

You can never have too many books or too many hugs. — Gina House

Books, I found, had the power to make time
stand still, retreat or fly into the future. — Jim Bishop

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book. — George MacDonald

Don't just read books that are best-sellers or books that you agree with, challenge your own thinking as you're reading. — Rowena Crosbie

You are either in a state of perfection or a state of learning. Reading is one of the best ways to learn about our lives and purpose! — Cupideros