I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to…

I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Don´t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go back again…

— Rajneesh

“We read because we need :)”

— Ifvana

I often feel like books find us for reasons, and we read them when we need them the most.

— Neil Patrick Harris

“If you have friends who say they don't read, you need new friends. That is my final answer.”

— Niedria Dionne Kenny

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

— Donald Miller

That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a little bit…

— Todd McFarlane

I remember as a young child, during one of my frequent trips to the local library, spending hours looking at book after book trying…

— Daniel Tammet

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

— Claire Bloom

“some quality time with a good book. Trying to”

— Susan Mallery

“Meantime do you see me as still working on the book, still trying to answer such questions as: Is there any ultimate reality, external,…

— Malcolm Lowry

“It's not enough to know what all the words mean," he continued. "A good reader starts to see what an entire book is trying…

— Paul Acampora

“As regards any specific book, I'm trying primarily to tell a story, in the most effective way I can think of, the most moving,…

— William Faulkner

With each book, I'm trying to do something that terrifies me.

— Andrew Sean Greer

It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read…

— Thomas de Quincey