Quotes About Reading

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I agree'.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

I was in a convenience store, reading a magazine. The clerk told me, "this is not a library!" "OK! I will talk louder, then!"

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.

If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.

High Times magazine is a notch intellectually below Highlights for Children. I mean, they're both great to read when you're baked, but come on, ya know.

If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.

You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.

All I know is just what I read in the Congressional Record. They have had some awful funny articles in there lately. As our government deteriorates, our humor increases.

I read the first few, " said Jackaby. "I've instructed my duck to just file the rest directly under P. I left it to him to decide if that was for politics or paranoia.

I do not do free e-books. I occasionally like to eat that thing you people call "food".

Bercelak's kin kept themselves busy by sharpening weapons, reading, talking, or setting things on fire with small bursts of flame.

Did you meet your soul mate? That always happens on the first day of school, right?''Oh God, Charlie, she's letting you read again! You went straight to the paranormal section, didn't you?

The whole point of straws, I had thought, was that you did not have to set down the slice of pizza to suck a dose of Coke while reading a paperback.

Ghost Hampton" took me years to write -- but it won't take you that long to read!

The first rule of book club - is that nobody wants to talk about book club.

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