You read a book all the way through? Why?

“The Bible is the one book we’ve most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way.”

— Geoffrey Wood

When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll…

— Carl Hiaasen

“Before I Talk, I Should Read A Book”

— The B-52s

Ive never read a book.

— Jimmy Bullard

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

— E. A. Bucchianeri

“When you read a book, you don't give up on it. You might soon feel like your part of the story.”

— Kiersten White

“Give your brain a break and read a book.”

— Jeff Lyon

“I just can't get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a book to see good people…

— China Miéville

“join their company. This book will show you the way.”

— Ryan Holiday

If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.

— Ambrose Bierce

Always I'm working on some of book. That's the way I make a living.

— Jimmy Carter

“On L. Ron Hubbard: Now I must admit that "Battlefield Earth" is a book with something for everyone, all the way across the cultural…

— Dave Langford

To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written.

— Bonnie Friedman

I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world…

— Marianne Vos

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

— Zoltan Kodaly