Quotes About Reading

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

Classic? - a book which people praise and don't read.

What a dog I got. Last night he went on the paper four times - three while I was reading it.

Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but even kids who hate to read want to read a funny book.

I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers.

In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

The Bible is the funniest book I have ever read. It's so funny! Right in the first six pages, it's funny!

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

The big advantage of a book is that it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

You know it's them books what make you talk funny.

If I could read a book, I'd definitely read one of yours.

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.

I think people will read about anything if it's good or interesting or funny enough.

If you want to find out if someone is a true bookworm or not, give them a thousand page novel and see what happens.

I have started a new blog W.A.R.(Writers Amongst Readers) for all those writing or reading books. Quotes, excerpts, comments from the world's greatest writers. See robinhawdonblog

You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.

There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.

I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.