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 More about this quote Tags: reading presence drugs disassociation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you believe everything you read, better not read. —Japanese proverb More about this quote Tags: reading belief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: humor reading health danger smoking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. —Charles De Secondat More about this quote Tags: reading peace books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. —Groucho Marx More about this quote Tags: reading books choices television Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget. —William Lyon Phelps More about this quote Tags: reading memory forgetting escapism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Man is what he reads. —Joseph Brodsky More about this quote Tags: reading books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. —Samuel Johnson More about this quote Tags: reading writing language composition Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: humor reading writing money buying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. —Groucho Marx More about this quote Tags: humor reading books dogs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Read in order to live. —Gustave Flaubert More about this quote Tags: reading books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am a part of everything that I have read. —Theodore Roosevelt More about this quote Tags: reading books identity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it. —William Goldman More about this quote Tags: reading books irony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: reading books experience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: silence reading books summer Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email