I'll just read a book instead...

I think as a young person, leaving high school or college, you're like, 'All right, all right, enough already.' But now there's a part…

— Phillipa Soo

“Don't just read a book. Eat it!”

— Jim McDougall

“I’ll probably just read a book. I’ve got like a million of them in my to-be-read pile.”

— Rebekah L. Purdy

“I'm a big fan of the local library. I just read a book, but that's another story.”

— British Sea Power

Just because you read the back of a book don't mean you know the whole story

— Anonymous

“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

You go into the book store, there's the cut-out of Dr. Phil, and then the dreaded women's health section where every book, instead of…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

I spend a huge amount of time writing about the book instead of writing the actual text.

— Chris Pavone

Lit majors are not known for watching where they're going; most of us walk with our eyes in a book instead of on the…

— Rachel Vincent

Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success

— Herb Brooks

If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good or not…

— Jackie Collins

Don't lose incredible opportunities due to fear or rage; there's no reason to close a good book, when we can instead just turn the…

— Jamie Timbre

I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading…

— Zosia Mamet

“And this book is - instead of my body, And this word is - instead of my soul.”

— Anonymous

Sometimes people read a book in order to not go on a trip. You read a book instead of going on the trip. And…

— Paul Theroux