This book is to be read in bed.

A book has to be easy to open and you don't have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can…

— Karl Lagerfeld

“The ultimate function of a book, however, is to be read, not to be looked or picked at.”

— Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon. Afterword to The Restored Finnegans Wake

'A People's History of the United States' was actually a very big book for me. I read it in high school, and I felt…

— Greta Gerwig

“There were still newspapers, then. We used to read them in bed. It's French, he said. From m'aidez . Help Me.”

— Margaret Atwood

I never read in bed, only in my study.

— Peter Ackroyd

I read most often in bed as part of my attempted sleep ritual. But I spend a lot of time reading on planes and…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

— Rick Perlstein

Search for inspiring quotes and put them on the walls of your bedroom. Read them before you go to bed and the first thing…

— Robert Cheeke

I do like to read in bed, but because I have two kids I'm often forced to read in the bathroom.

— Eoin Colfer

At night, all electronics are off between 9:30 and 10 P.M. I read in bed, watch Netflix, or make lists reminding myself of things…

— Mat Fraser

Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long…

— Nathan Fillion

To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and…

— Clifton Fadiman

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“A blanket would be a great surface to print my new book on, so you could read it in bed while you’re having boring,…

— Jarod Kintz

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.

— Anna Quindlen