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I don't read books. -- Eric Bristow
I don't read books much. -- LeBron James
I read books to read myself. -- Sven Birkerts
Some people read books for fun. -- Richelle Mead
I sometimes read books on my iPad. -- David Sedaris
Yes, I don't read books for entertainment. -- Elizabeth Olsen
I don't read books, I write them. -- Henry A. Kissinger
I don't really read books. Wish I did. -- Rebecca Ferguson
We don't simply read books. We become them. -- Anatole Broyard
I read books more than I go out. -- Julie Bowen
People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations. -- Bob Dylan
I only read books I know I will like -- Vicky Unwin
We read books to find out who we are. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation. -- Jesse Ball
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life. -- Barbara Kingsolver
I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old. -- Hans-Georg Gadamer
I don't read books, but I have friends who do. -- George W. Bush
When she wanted to escape her life, she read books -- Jodi Picoult
I don't read books by people who have betrayed the Motherland. -- Vladimir Putin
Whoever lacks the initiative to read books stifles his own selfhood, -- Carl F. H. Henry
People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books. -- Paul Theroux
I am a book lover. I buy, collect and read books. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying. -- Melissa Marr
I don't like to read books. They muss up my mind. -- Henry Ford
Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice - read books. -- Amit Kalantri
I like to read books. I like to listen to music. -- Haruki Murakami
Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books. -- Garrison Keillor
Better not read books in which you make acquaintance of the devil. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
I don't read books. I read the Daily Express and The Star. -- Tim Sherwood
Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen. -- Blake Crouch
I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it. -- Joyce Carol Oates
A lot of people in government don't really read books at all. -- Geoff Mulgan
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. -- Annie Dillard
More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have. -- Vivienne Westwood
Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness. -- Tom DeLonge
If people didn't read books on the subway, underground journeys would be dreary. -- Russell Smith
I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person. -- Hope Solo
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. -- Winston Churchill
Life is like a box of chocolates, I'm a nerd and I read books -- Dick Van Dyke
Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed. -- Douglas Adams
Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other? -- David Baldacci
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement. -- John Ruskin
I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them. -- Simon Van Booy
I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person. I'm sorry. -- Hope Solo
We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another. -- Mary Ann Shaffer
There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages. -- Ferran Adria
I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think... -- John Green
But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons. -- Jonathan Coe
I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12. -- Alexander McQueen
When I read books it's to escape. It's so I don't have to talk to people. -- Stephen Colbert
Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby. -- Jeff B. Davis
I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me. -- Michael Caine
I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV anymore. -- Daphne Guinness
I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them. -- Ann Patchett
As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children, or you read books for adults. -- Richard K. Morgan
In a way, a jail is a place where you can rest, read books and live with yourself. -- Benazir Bhutto
The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species. -- James Gleick
There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books. -- Aaron Carter
The books that matter to me...are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself. -- Sven Birkerts
I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult. -- Lois Lowry
You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple. -- Anthony de Mello
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I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels. -- Kid Rock
I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. -- Robert Hass
The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more. -- Gabriel Zaid
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall. -- Bob Dylan
I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up. -- Shane Carruth
She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop. -- Zora Neale Hurston
I would not wear any clothes that had a brand name on them, and I only read books that were canonical. -- Zoe Kazan
When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books. -- Anne Enright
I'm very comfortable with myself and my sexuality, but it doesn't define me. I also read books believe it or not. -- Eva Mendes
What terrifies me is that I might somehow endorse that view so people think they don't have to read books anymore. -- Steve Coogan
I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me. -- Caroline Wozniacki
All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything. -- Tom Paulin
I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind. -- Robert Jay Lifton
I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this. -- Jacqueline Woodson
I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books. -- Rainn Wilson
One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books. -- Jonathan Lethem
People tend to read books about a guy who goes back in time or a guy who is living under a pier. -- Andy Andrews
Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else. -- Daniel Handler
During long car rides to the set, after I study my script, I go onto my iPad to read books and play games. -- Nolan Gould
Some people read books on musicians, while I read music books. Not books on music, but literally books full of sheet music. Fascinating reading. -- Jarod Kintz
My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts. -- Jack Prelutsky
I prey on innocent villagers and terrify their children," he said with a nasty smile. "And sometimes when I'm feeling really evil, I read books or paint. -- Kate Avery Ellison
I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music. -- Charles Frazier
As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my neighborhood in Philadelphia. -- Ed Bradley
I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults. -- Richard K. Morgan
I read a lot, all the time, but often I read books for research, or because they're interesting to me in some way, even if they aren't exactly 'pleasurable.' -- Gretchen Rubin
Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind. -- Nicholas Sparks
I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre. -- Ian Frazier
I'm around my kids every day. I'm regular. We're a regular family. My wife cooks, she washes clothes, I read books, I pump my own gas, I get my own hair cut. -- Tracy Morgan
Canada was for me very much Sweden, you know? Very much open people, that they read books, they go see films. I felt at home in Canada. And also, you speak French. -- Michael Nyqvist
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
Unintended Consequences is full of substance, it is one of the must-read books of the year, and once I finish it I will be giving it a second read through right away. -- Tyler Cowen
I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today. -- Dolly Parton
Readers in general are not fond of dialect, and I don't blame them. I've read books myself that I've had to put down because sounding out every speech gave me a headache. -- Susanna Kearsley
My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what's the purpose of reading, and maybe that it's not that cool to hate something just because it's popular. -- Josh Radnor
I used to practice cello while watching TV and films. I watched several complete TV series this way, including 'Lost' and 'The Wire.' As a kid, I'd read books while playing. -- Joshua Roman
libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands -- Umberto Eco
At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then -- Alison Bechdel
She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat. -- Maud Hart Lovelace
I usually claim that pregnant women should not read books about pregnancy and birth. Their time is too precious. They should, rather, watch the moon and sing to their baby in the womb. -- Michel Odent
I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it. -- Walter Dean Myers
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 love to read books that focus on parenting topics because there are so many different ways to do things. I find these books offer a lot of great opinions on many different subjects. -- Kourtney Kardashian
There are two answers to the things they will teach you about our land: the real answer and the answer you give in school to pass. You must read books and learn both answers. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road. -- Lisa Loeb
Ted Williams is one of the best hitters ever to play the game, and I didn't get a chance to see him play, so all I could do was read books and look at pictures. -- Tony Gwynn
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing this reality, future generations are in danger of losing their history. -- Nelson Mandela
Make sure you meet the right people, people who know that industry and are willing to help you. Do your homework - read books about the industry, talk to people. If you don't know something, ask. -- Anwar Robinson
How come regional pandering only works in one direction, right? You never see a Southern politician trying to win votes in New York State by saying, 'I read books and make a mean vegan meatloaf.' -- Bill Maher
When I read books, I actually really love imagining whomever I want to in the character's role. I get such vivid pictures on my own that that is a big part of the experience for me. -- Kristin Gore
And that is the problem with a society that doesn't read books. The most painful form of censorship does not come from a centralized, repressive government. It is a cast, black cloak of a nation's indifference. -- Lourd de Veyra
It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field. -- Stephen Covey
I personally, as a teenager, didn't like books I felt were trying to preach to me... I did not believe in happy endings. I wanted to read books which reflected life as I thought I knew it. -- Malorie Blackman
I sit at home and read books. I watch movies. I watch television. I go and play golf. I don't go to nightclubs. I don't go out to dinner that often. I'm not a big party guy. -- Samuel L. Jackson
I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!' -- Linda Grant

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