Reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and you're not there anymore. It's better than heroin. More effective and cheaper and legal.
—Mary Karr
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
—Japanese proverb
I have every sympathy with the American [smoker] who was so horrified by what he had read of the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.
—Henry G. Strauss
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
—Charles De Secondat
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
—Groucho Marx
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
—William Lyon Phelps
Man is what he reads.
—Joseph Brodsky
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
—Samuel Johnson
I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
—Fred Allen
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
—Groucho Marx
Read in order to live.
—Gustave Flaubert
I am a part of everything that I have read.
—Theodore Roosevelt
This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.
—William Goldman
Some lessons you learned by the book. Others you learned from cold hard experience. The latter may not be the best way to learn, but it damn well stuck.
—Maya Banks in No Place to Run
Most often in the summertime, she's holed up somewhere with a book, sometimes not saying more than a few words in a whole day.
—Katrin Schumann in The Forgotten Hours