More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the…

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

— Peter Davison

As we go through this transition where a lot more people will be reading on devices, nobody is paying enough attention to make sure…

— James Patterson

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

— Ernest Shackleton

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

— Sherman Alexie

Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class.

— Rachel Zucker

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W.…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

If you look at the history of how information flows, there was a time that newspapers were kind of in the place that Google…

— Eli Pariser

I wanted to find people who were like me, and I did, in the people I was reading.

— Benjamin Clementine

Overall, people are reading less.

— David Carson

Young people's reading choices are influenced by their peers.

— Stephen D. Krashen

“There are a large number of people in the room, but one is unaware of them. They are in the books. At times they…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Enlightened people like Osho are ahead of their times. It is good that more and more young people are now reading his works.

— K. R. Narayanan

“They write for people who read with the surface of their minds, people with reading habits that make the smallest demands on them, people…

— William Gaddis

“People are reading it, but it's all forgotten so soon. It's fish and chip paper the next day, so who cares?”

— Cheryl Tweedy

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

— Edith Sitwell