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Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing. — Michael Dirda

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

I'm a quiet person's nightmare - the only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek. — Jodie Whittaker

Don't read a book to let the time pass...let the time pass to read a book. — Nicholaa Spencer

I don't have time for invisible books when there are so many real books to read. — Gina Sheridan

For a long time, I'd wanted to write a book that I would be proud and happy and psychologically and morally comfortable about my parents' reading. — Glen Duncan

One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that. — Charles Clarke

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes. — Dodie Smith

A book lives a new life every time it is read. — Brandon Sanderson

Don't waste your time with procrastinating, because that time you won't get back. Be productive, even if it means sitting in your bed and reading :D — Anonymous

I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself. — Tommy Lee

Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing a spark plug. — William J. Clinton

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time. — James Russell Lowell

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story. — Alberto Manguel

I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus. — Conor Oberst

As an advice columnist, I spend a lot of time reading through psychology journals to ensure that I give the most up-to-date advice. — Amy Dickinson

One must either stop reading the Bible altogether, or else leave off spending one's whole time in just doing easy pleasant things one likes to do. — Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time. — Simon Mawer

Some people just need to read and think, to spend time alone sorting through the stories in their heads — Ronald T. Potter-Efron

Reading haiku is like viewing a photograph or a painting. A haiku is a moment of time, isolated, and held up for viewing. — Harley King

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 time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp. — Deb Caletti

Some books are so special that you never forget where you were the first time you read them. — Natalie Lloyd

Every time I have a bad day, I'll just find a corner, bring out my book and then everything starts to feel better. — Wency June Z. Libot

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book. — Robin Gibb

This was his favorite time of day, reading to his heart's content before going to sleep. When he tired of reading, he would fall asleep. — Haruki Murakami

I spend a lot of time reading. — Bill Gates

We can connect with that openness at any time. For instance, right now, for three seconds, just stop reading and pause. If — Pema Chodron

Every time I complete a major project I reward myself with two full days of just reading and coffee! I do justify that it is my work! — Delia J. Colvin

All this time I thought you were reading to escape the world, but now I know, you didn't read to escape it, you read to discover it. — Brittainy C. Cherry

In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not get around to actually reading the Bible. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure — Jane Brody

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it. — Franklin P. Jones

Make time to read. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books? — Karl Kraus

How mean to buy only as many books as one will actually have time to read. — Alain De Botton

Time machines, magic portals, transporters, worm holes, flying carpets, relocation charms - such things do exist. They're called books. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre. — Thomas Perry

Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to. — Eudora Welty

People have a hard time reading my comics. I think I leave things out, but I feel you should. — Brian Chippendale

I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest. — D. B. Weiss

People who say they don't have time to read simply don't want to. — Julie Rugg

No time is more precious and well rewarded than those few moments you spend reading a story to a child — Robert D. Harris

Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power. — Michael Foot

Reading a book is like life: you live it one page at a time. — Ronald E. Yates

We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.
[Inside Out (VH1)] — Warren Zevon

I was reading books about the Nazi presence not only in Argentina, but all over Latin America, and time and after time this information would come up. — Lucia Puenzo

I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read 'The Great Gatsby' every summer. — Dree Hemingway

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing. — Patricia Polacco

I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to read. — Jim Shepard

That when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer) — Arthur Schopenhauer

After I read a good book, I have a hard time coping with reality. — Unknown

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it. — Karl Lagerfeld

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading. — Lisa Tuttle

I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and if it captures me. — Andie MacDowell

And the upside to being confined to home was that it gave me plenty of time to continue reading. — Valerie Biel

I think the closest thing to a time machine that I've ever found is the Children's section of a library. — AnnaMarie Ralph

She didn't watch a lot of TV, and she spent more time reading than socializing, — Chanda Hahn

Nothing is better than spending quality time with my family by reading & using our imaginations! — A.J. DeJong

Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book always makes it easier. — Amanda Hocking

I did not want to spend my time reading about people who never were, doing things they never did. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name — Ernest Dimnet

I'm the same way about the bookshop. You know, I walk around and I feel the whole world is in there, the most important stories of all time. — Caroline Kepnes

Reading about another era is like armchair time travel--without the baggage. — CJ Fosdick

Every 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 Tyson

I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin. — Libba Bray

Even in the most stressed times there is always time for reading. — Emilie And Stephanie

I'm not even speaking to people any more; I just want to be reading my Kindle the whole time! — Sophie McShera

It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines. — David Maraniss

Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile? — Richelle E. Goodrich

I'm jackin' off reading Playboy on a hot afternoon, I'm a three time loser. — Rod Stewart

It's like you're reading a book and every time someone's tearing the pages. — Sara Shepard

Primo Levi once said, "I write in order to rejoin the community of mankind." Reading is a private act, but it joins us across continents and time. — Azar Nafisi

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff. — Frank Crane

No matter how busy you make think you are you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance — Confucius

If, when reading and walking at the same time, he bumped into a lamppost, he would apologize and check that the lamppost was unhurt. — Katherine Rundell

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

If you carry a paperback book in your back pocket, but spend more time on your hair than you do reading it, you're probably a bad actor. — Dov Davidoff

I spend so much time on the Internet ... I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading. — Aziz Ansari

...but there was never enough time to read. The great irony of working in a library. — Jan Louch

Most of the time, we don't know others; we only know our own ideas about others — S.E. Sever

One more thing: don't spend too much time merely reading. The best part of this work is the play, so play and enjoy! — Gary Gygax

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

I've probably spent more time than any other brand reading every last comment. To listen to people the way you're able to online is very powerful. — Sophia Amoruso

The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts. — Miranda Cosgrove

You know the people," said Pamela, "who say, 'Of course I love reading, but I've no time, alas!' as if everyone who loves reading doesn't make time. — O. Douglas

Timing is always off. Someone is always late, always lost, always looking back to the start of a reality that they didn't want to begin with. — Leigh Hershkovich

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

Life is too short to waste your time with bad books. — Michael Kruger

The Bible is the greatest literature of all times. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. — Dylan Thomas

I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother. — Kate Beckinsale

I do not remember a time when I could not read, nor any time when reading was not a joy and a solace. — Emmeline Pankhurst

Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading. — Arthur Christiansen

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me. — Donald Kagan

Again, I must stress that this is my reading now of what happened then. Or rather, my memory now of my reading then of what was happening at the time. — Julian Barnes

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television. — Johnny Cash

No matter the intervention, developing readers must spend substantial instructional time actually reading if they are to attain reading competence. — Donalyn Miller

If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there isn't much room for anything else. — Cathleen Schine