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  • Hey you, read a book. Now. -- Love The Stacks Bookstore
  • I shall remain on Mars and read a book. -- Ray Bradbury
  • 42% of college graduates never read a book after college. -- John C. Maxwell
  • Never read a book that is not a year old. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Ever read a book that changed your life? Me neither. -- Jim Gaffigan
  • It's very difficult to read a book on your computer. -- Paulo Coelho
  • You ever read a book that changed your life? Me neither. -- Jim Gaffigan
  • Don't read a book out of its right time for you. -- Doris Lessing
  • When I can't sleep, I read a book by Steve Allen. -- Oscar Levant
  • Never read a book through merely because you have begun it. -- John Witherspoon
  • If I could read a book, I'd definitely read one of yours. -- Paris Hilton
  • Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book. -- John Hughes
  • I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so. -- Oscar Wilde
  • For me, when I read a book, I'm very much about detail. -- Emma Roberts
  • I read a book one day and my whole life was changed. -- Orhan Pamuk
  • I only read a book if I feel intuitively led to read it. -- Echo Bodine
  • People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book. -- Bob Dylan
  • Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives. -- Lois Lowry
  • Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream. -- Les Brown
  • Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it. -- Sherman Alexie
  • I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author. -- Elbert Hubbard
  • We don't want to read a book. We want to live an experience. -- Carolyn Wheat
  • I read a book not to find its meaning, but to find my happiness. -- Carson Cistulli
  • Never read a book to the end, nor even in sequence and without skipping. -- Fernando Pessoa
  • It's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it. -- Junot Diaz
  • For me, movies should be visual. If you want dialogue, you should read a book. -- Vilmos Zsigmond
  • If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else? -- George Carlin
  • No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it. -- Ernest Hemingway
  • Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first. -- Ali Liebegott
  • This year, more people will use cocaine than will read a book to their children. -- Michael Scott
  • Where you read a book and when and with whom can make a big difference. -- Robert Coles
  • I'm trying to read a book on how to relax, but I keep falling asleep. -- James M. Loy
  • Don't read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a student. -- Jim Rohn
  • I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
  • I love to travel, but when I really want to escape, I read a book. -- Jean Craighead George
  • I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
  • She could not read a book for fear of the feelings she might find in it. -- Diane Setterfield
  • I'm quite hyper, and my wife would prefer it if I sat down and read a book. -- Jamie Dornan
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  • The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit. -- Anthony Newley
  • Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. -- George Johnson
  • If you feel the urge to write, just lie down and read a book: it will pass. -- Fran Lebowitz
  • To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different. -- Johnny Rich
  • I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand. -- Cindy Sherman
  • I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine. -- Lurlene McDaniel
  • When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar. -- Saint Augustine
  • It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. -- Stephen Chbosky
  • There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie. -- Dick Wolf
  • I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so. -- Erik Larson
  • For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven. -- Robert Motherwell
  • As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that. -- Donna Tartt
  • Maybe it's not about the journey but rather the way you imagine the journey when you read a book. -- BeaOngjoco
  • I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old. -- Stanley Kubrick
  • Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about. -- Britney Spears
  • I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx
  • As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes. -- Rebecca Stead
  • I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree. -- Bobby Fischer
  • A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book. -- Ali Smith
  • We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound. -- Zoltan Kodaly
  • All I can do is read a book to stay awake, and it rips my life away, but it's a great escape. -- Blind Melon
  • I'll read a book every now and then, but unlike most of my friends I don't always have one on the go. -- Jonathan Pryce
  • I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it! -- Paul Schrader
  • When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it. -- William Goldman
  • I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it. -- Woodrow Wilson
  • I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. -- John le Carre
  • If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. -- Emily Dickinson
  • If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time. -- Tom Peters
  • It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate. -- Mordecai Richler
  • I read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what I read. -- Junot Diaz
  • I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book. -- Sam Crawford
  • Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me. -- William Wordsworth
  • It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt... -- Ray Bradbury
  • Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth. -- Jack Gantos
  • Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time. -- Joni Mitchell
  • I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house. -- Amy Tan
  • A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to read a book. -- Rebecca Mead
  • When I read a book, I like to be surprised. I don't want to read the same genre formula that I've read a hundred times before. -- Chet Williamson
  • I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book and enjoy the quiet. -- Audrina Patridge
  • We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once. -- Ali Smith
  • If I am intuitively led to buy and read a book, what that means is that there is something there that will help me grow spiritually. -- Echo Bodine
  • Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it. -- Markus Zusak
  • When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does. -- Meg Ryan
  • I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING a book...on my computer! -- Meg Cabot
  • There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect. -- Gary Shteyngart
  • When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does. -- Meg Ryan
  • I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day. -- Jodie Foster
  • If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago. -- William Hazlitt
  • My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read Boneland. -- Alan Garner
  • If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know. -- David Duchovny
  • I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book. -- Jamaica Kincaid
  • I just got my phone back yesterday. My mom had it for two days. I was supposed to read a book and I really wanted to play Call Of Duty. -- Chloe Grace Moretz
  • I've no interest in going on a road trip. If I want to go on holiday, I want to sit on a beach, swim, drink cocktails and read a book. -- Sam Riley
  • When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination. -- Nina Jacobson
  • When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost. -- Karin Slaughter
  • To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing. -- Maria Mitchell
  • You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it. -- Jessamyn West
  • Keep reading books, stay in school. I encourage kids to read as much as they can, I challenge you to read a book every two weeks, like I try to. -- Alex Rodriguez
  • My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine. -- bell hooks
  • I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write. -- Robert E. Howard
  • If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer. -- Anne Frank
  • I think it's very hard for us, for Christians, to understand that it's okay to read a book, for instance, on how to manage your time. There's nothing wrong with that. -- Donald Miller
  • When we read a book, we have a blurry image that's kind of physical but blurry. But we have an emotional image also. We have an emotional connection to the character. -- Niels Arden Oplev
  • I would much rather read a book about Ty Cobb, who was quite possibly a sociopath. It makes for more interesting copy. Some of the most memorable characters in literature were villains. -- Jonathan Weeks
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  • Not everybody has time to pay attention fully, or not everybody has the time to read a book. Some people refuse to read books, and I'm just an unread book. Open me! -- Lil B
  • Before bed, I read a book or flip on the radio - I'm not picky, I'll just turn it on and see what comes up. I burn a yummy lavender- scented candle. -- Carrie Underwood
  • Books,' I say sleepily. 'They don't change either. If you read a book and look at it again later on, it's still the same thing. But it's exciting all over again. -- Truus Matti
  • I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same. -- Alice Munro
  • I'm the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is rattling off in Swedish. It's like, 'OK, I can just read a book.' -- Will Ferrell
  • Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone. -- Winona Ryder
  • My flight time is important to me; I actually prefer a longer flight to a short one. That way I have time to read a book, watch movies, and think about new dishes. -- Nobu Matsuhisa
  • When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too. -- William Sanderson
  • If somebody takes the time, a: to read a book that I have written, and then to b: care about it enough to write me and ask questions, surely I owe them a response. -- Lois Lowry
  • I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world - and I'm lucky to see so much through cycling. -- Marianne Vos
  • Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism. -- Jorge Luis Borges
  • I think when you read a book you leave reality behind and enter your mind, where there is imagination that ignites you and that is when you truly are stuck in a good book... -- Jamie Holzheimer
  • If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an organization that advocated "change," we would all be the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants. -- Edward R. Murrow
  • I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read a book, I feel like I am getting two years of life experiences. -- Mark Batterson
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