Don't tell me you're reading it,' she said, as if I were…

No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a…

— Anonymous

But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.

— Khaled Hosseini

“Always be reading something, he said. Even when we’re not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a…

— Ali Smith

“Even a dull life could make worthwhile reading, he said, provided the writer paid sufficient attention to detail.”

— Susan Hubbard

“ candid , adj . "Most times, when I'm having sex, I'd rather be reading." This was, I admit, a strange thing to say…

— David Levithan

“Reading,” I said. “Books. It’s pretty sexy. I like women who read.” - Rip”

— Kailin Gow

“Make me tell you something else about reading. You see this? Every time you open this you get free. Freeness up in here and…

— Marlon James

Might not hurt you to pick up a book, just as an experiment." Whatever. I looked up the definition for 'nerd' in the dictionary.…

— Brandon Mull

“You make faces when you read, you know. I can always tell when you're reading something happy or suspenseful, or upsetting. Your face shows…

— Alicia Thompson

Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that doesn't read…

— Jim Trelease

I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.

— Francis Spufford

You can tell when someone is reading the lines of a song or performing it.

— G-Eazy

I think, always, with a new book, I get nervous. I think mostly it is because work is really important to me, and a…

— Nick Hornby

“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ”

— Agatha Christie

Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I…

— Geoff Dyer