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  • I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels. -- Lee Child
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  • In my high-minded and naive way, I believed the only books worth reading were the classics. -- Maria Semple
  • I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn't brimming with books. -- Mark Billingham
  • I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books. -- Margaret Haddix
  • My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books. -- Tony Judt
  • Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. -- Ramakrishna
  • I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books. -- Sheryl Sandberg
  • I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love. -- Nina Jacobson
  • I'm usually reading too many books - in fact, I'm usually reading enough books that if the stack fell on me, I'd be injured. -- Nick Harkaway
  • Book clubs, both online and in person, have become a large percentage of the reading public, and many of them won't consider reading books in hardcover. -- Christina Baker Kline
  • In my experience, adults rarely bother reading the reviews of children's books and almost never read the books themselves - particularly if they don't have children. -- Meg Rosoff
  • I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading. -- Malorie Blackman
  • When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
  • I have been very interested in the number of kids who have read the Sherlock Holmes books after reading the Mary Russell books. That's great. That's more or less how I rediscovered the Holmes books. -- Laurie R. King
  • There's bleeding between age groups in terms of reading material, and there's bleeding between media. So there are books that are clearly comics and books that are prose, and then there are these books that are kind of in-between. -- Gene Luen Yang
  • I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective. -- Mallory Ortberg
  • Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books. -- Anne Rice
  • Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to chapter books. Chapters are often long... 10 pages can seem like a lifetime to a young reader. Then reading becomes laborious and serious. That's why some of the chapters in my books are very short. -- Rhea Perlman
  • I'm reading a lot of different books, but I always think I have to switch it up a little bit. It's like food - everything in moderation, same with my books, same with my reading. You read books that are good for you and you learn a lot of stuff, then you read 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' which is like candy. -- Shay Mitchell
  • i really like reading books -- Dale Carnegie
  • Books require titles; reading them doesn't -- Alan Moore
  • I love books. I enjoyed reading. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Books worth reading are worth re-reading. -- Holbrook Jackson
  • You can learn investing by reading books. -- Bill Ackman
  • Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS -- Charles Bukowski
  • I grew up reading books about heroic collies. -- Cathleen Schine
  • Life is too short for reading inferior books. -- James Bryce
  • Never regret losing time on reading good books -- Kowtham Kumar K
  • We encounter great souls by reading great books. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage. -- Pat Conroy
  • Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books. -- Mary Ann Shaffer
  • Reading books is good, Rereading good books is better. -- Lawrence Clark Powell
  • Reading books would be boring if you lack imagination... -- Himmilicious
  • I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading. -- Malorie Blackman
  • the more the merrier. so enjoy reading more books -- Francine Pascal
  • I should have written books instead of reading them. -- Alan Lightman
  • I spent my life in the library reading books. -- Michael Caine
  • Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading. -- Charlie Kaufman
  • We travel to ancient times by reading history books. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock. -- Cassandra Clare
  • I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them. -- Salman Rushdie
  • I always seem to be reading several books at once. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
  • I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books. -- Mason Cooley
  • What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces. -- Anis Mansour
  • I keep my self updated by reading different books and encyclopedias. -- Arfa Karim
  • You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice. -- John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
  • The end of reading is not more books but more life. -- Holbrook Jackson
  • There are many more books to read, when will I finish reading? -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • I kept telling my mom that reading comic books would pay off. -- Joss Whedon
  • Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading. -- Donalyn Miller
  • Where do I find the time for not reading so many books? -- Karl Kraus
  • I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them. -- Brad Feld
  • Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. -- Mark Twain
  • We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. -- B. F. Skinner
  • I am too fond of reading books to care to write them. -- Oscar Wilde
  • You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict. -- Leonard Ravenhill
  • Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading. -- Stephen D. Krashen
  • The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
  • Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk. -- Virginia Woolf
  • I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder. -- Salman Rushdie
  • Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again. -- Louisa May Alcott
  • All the successful personalities had one common element, they all liked reading books. -- Amit Kalantri
  • I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism. -- Liam Neeson
  • I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books. -- Haruki Murakami
  • I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself. -- Oscar Levant
  • By reading older books we get a taste of the conversation of Heaven. -- John Mark Reynolds
  • Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great. -- Sam Amidon
  • You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing. -- Sterling W Sill
  • As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference." -- John Hodgman
  • I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books. -- Penn Jillette
  • I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself. -- Oscar Levant
  • A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference. -- John Hodgman
  • There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. -- Joseph Brodsky
  • I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written. -- Barbara Kingsolver
  • My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book. -- Joy Fielding
  • There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. -- Joseph Brodsky
  • Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. -- Mark Haddon
  • I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things. -- Bindi Irwin
  • I was reading all these books, including the Bible - and I'm an atheist. -- Margot Kidder
  • We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books. -- Markus Zusak
  • Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything. -- Eloisa James
  • I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon. -- John Larroquette
  • Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read. -- Anne Bronte
  • I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books. -- Morris Chestnut
  • One of my favorite books [The Stand] of all time. I grew up reading it. -- Rob Lowe
  • Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading. -- Kate Mosse
  • I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape. -- Michael Caine
  • I'll tell you what I think. I think you need to stay indoors reading more books! -- Cecily von Ziegesar
  • Um, yeah. I guess lying around reading books all day doesn't do much for physical endurance. -- Amy Plum
  • I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading. -- Dorothy Parker
  • I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books. -- Leighton Meester
  • I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass. -- Dawn Olivieri
  • The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Jeff Kinney's 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' series and Stephenie Meyer's 'Twilight' books got 49,323,701 kids reading. -- Jon Scieszka
  • Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books. -- Francine Prose
  • Reading books is like your own emotional and wishful life that you could see yourself living. -- Sarah Johnson
  • If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book. -- Daniel Handler
  • Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books -- Meles Zenawi
  • The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. -- John Wooden
  • Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure. -- P. D. James
  • The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. -- John Wooden
  • I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. -- Wislawa Szymborska
  • While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration. -- Charles Stross
  • My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing. -- Milla Jovovich
  • The Chinese have a habit of reading. Many families regard books as the most valuable family asset. -- Li Yuanchao
  • Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it. -- Khaled Hosseini
  • I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries. -- Eleanor Catton
  • Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation. -- Charice Pempengco
  • The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. -- Katherine Mansfield
  • Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
  • My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little. -- Honeysuckle Weeks
  • A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books. -- Ned Vizzini
  • You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others. -- Joseph Delaney
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