I’m always writing – its what I like to do. But when I’m not writing, I’m reading.
I read in self-defense.
Some of the best memories of my childhood that I have are the times that I played hooky from school so I could spend my days in the public library reading all the wonderful books at my disposal.
He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.
Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.
It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices.
Start writing the things that you are reading or that you want to be published doing.
It is a writer’s greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books.
My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I’m quite prone to such bouts of deplorability – take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.
It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn’t want to move around very much.
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
I just started reading lots of books and then called the United Nations and asked if they could educate me. The more I got involved, the more I suddenly began to feel useful as a human being and felt like I was finally living as I should be.
Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought – asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you.
I love reading – inspirational books, leadership books, biographies. I exercise a lot and put on my audio book. Even If you would offer me a million dollars for my iPod I wouldn’t give it to you, because I have some great things on it.
My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.
Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.
If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.