Quotes About Reading

I really like putting the kids to bed. Everyone is cozy and snuggly. Nobody is giving anyone a hard time, and everybody reads.

An ear will never do you wrong, but I know writers who... most of the language they use is just extracted language from other languages they've read. I am a big-time reader, but I mix and match.

A little-known fact about me: I read all the time.

I read everything by Ian McEwan, he is so elegant. I love reading anything about Shakespeare, too. He is my first love. If I had a time machine, I would be hanging out with him.

Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking.

Michio Kaku and Albert Einstein, they're both so ahead of our time. It's just fascinating to read about them, what their theories are on loopholes and everything else. It's fascinating stuff.

I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.

Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.

The real threat to reading isn't the time we spend hanging out, it's the time we spend online.

I don't want no lies, I don't watch TV. I don't waste my time, won't read a magazine.

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.

I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.

When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.

I read books when I have time. I probably spend a third of the time watching TV, and the rest of it is reading, but I read.

Richard's bookshelves weren't alphabetized. He never had time to alphabetize them. He was always too busy- looking for books he couldn't find.

From the first time I held an iPhone, the space has evolved quickly, and people have shifted from reading content on their desktops to smartphones and iPads, even long-form stuff.

My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was an early and vigorous reader.

When I was 16, the first book I ever actually purchased with my own money, in fact, and had read on my own time was "Hunt for Red October" by Tom Clancy...

Summer is my favorite time to read mysteries.

I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so simple a child could understand it.

I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.

I'd pick - my father would bring home about six newspapers. We had 10 in Boston at the time.