turn off your television and read a book!

“Before I Talk, I Should Read A Book”

— The B-52s

“Give your brain a break and read a book.”

— Jeff Lyon

Ive never read a book.

— Jimmy Bullard

When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll…

— Carl Hiaasen

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

— E. A. Bucchianeri

“When you read a book, you don't give up on it. You might soon feel like your part of the story.”

— Kiersten White

“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 can't tell your kids to read if you're just watching television. They have to see you read. And in that respect, I think…

— Gary Ross

Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.

— James Wolk

To be perfectly honest, I follow football the way I follow television. I read about it.

— Alice Dreger

All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

— Donna Leon

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you…

— John Sayles

I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.

— Emily Watson

I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world…

— Marianne Vos

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

— Zoltan Kodaly