A book is a good thing to read.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say…

— Paul Auster

It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself.

— Mary Travers

O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are…

— Richard Llewellyn

But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that…

— Joshua Leonard

If you want to learn a thing, read that. If you want to know a thing, write that; if you want to master a…

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Unless you can be in a place yourself and go through the subject of your story yourself, the next best thing is not to…

— Michael Morpurgo

Digital doesn't interest me. It's too many steps removed from the actual tactile thing. I still read books. I don't read online.

— Jessica Lange

“Odd Thing to Read After an Autopsy: “He was in much better health than we expected.” Well, yeah … except for the DEAD part.”

— Teresa Medeiros

All the elements in an advertisement are primarily designed to do one thing and one thing only: get you to read the first sentence…

— Joseph Sugarman

I'd go nuts. Because people look at the same passage and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and…

— Paul Auster

“So!' he said, at length, and it came as a complete surprise to me that fellows ever really do say 'So!'. I had always…

— P G Wodehouse

It's a very powerful, emotional thing to read a book, and to reduce it to a series of questions in a test strips something…

— Kate DiCamillo

It was a big thing for me to read black writers. 'Fences,' by August Wilson. James Baldwin's 'Amen Corner.' 'The Fire Next Time.' 'The…

— Chadwick Boseman

It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is…

— Frederick Locker-Lampson