No matter how much we love a book, the experience of…

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

— Joe Orton

Reading isn't the opposite of doing, it's the opposite of dying.

— Will Schwalbe

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

— John Podhoretz

The real threat to reading isn’t the time we spend hanging out, it’s the time we spend online.

— Lorin Stein

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home…

— Babe Ruth

“reading isn't a hobby, it's a passion.”

— Kaitlynn Marlin

Many things embarrass me, but reading isn't one of them. I'm not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky…

— Tom Rachman

The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.

— Adrian Tomine

The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.

— Jerry Kramer

So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at…

— Chang-Rae Lee

To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed,…

— Umberto Eco

Every book is its own experience, the writing of it.

— Elizabeth Berg

The book is an experience that allows you to witness your feelings without having to surrender to them, to succumb to them, or to…

— Michael Silverblatt

I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his…

— Ilka Chase

I think writing a book about this experience would be trying to capitalize on it in some way and that's not something I want…

— James Frey