Quotes About Reading

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

You know, I'm really bad on the computer. I'm really lame, man. I read and hang out with my kids. I've turned into a five year old.

The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.

On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

A lonely man on a rainy night who cannot read.

By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!

If you hear a man rail at the Bible, you can usually conclude that he never reads it.

In terms of fashion, I think the biggest influence that I had was my father. My pops, he was really into men's fashion and read all of the magazines.

There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.

I like a mysterious man. I like a man who reads and is knowledgeable about the world, but who doesn't have to brag about it.

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.

Yeah, I just finished a novel. Man those things take forever to read.

...That he'd seen...two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating chocolates.

My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous.' Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Peter Straub were the three wise men of our family bookshelf.

For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience.

All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its release has become a functional necessity.

I think Republicans need to have their staffers reading less Ayn Rand and having them read Dr. Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning more.

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.

I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.

I was not a giant comic book fan as a kid, but to the extent that I did read comics, Spider-Man was always my favorite guy.

And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.