If all you do is sit and read, all you get is smart and…

“She’s too hot, even for you. And since she’s got a book, she probably knows how to read, so she’s smart enough to know…

— Nicole Williams

Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things…

— Mark Strand

“In the morning he would sit down to work, finish his allotted task, then take the little lamp from the hook, put it on…

— Leo Tolstoy

A book's alright when the weather's foul and there's nothing else to do, but why sit and read when the wind is calling your…

— Mercedes Lackey

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

— Anonymous

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way…

— Carrie Underwood

You sit and you read that, and you have to imagine turning it into a film that people are going to sit and watch.…

— Wolfgang Petersen

“This is the most important thing about me--I'm a card-carrying reader. All I really want to do is sit and read or lie down…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down…

— Jimmy Breslin

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

— David Baldacci

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were…

— Beverly Cleary

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films!…

— Christopher Hampton

I don't go to church in England - although that's down to the language barrier - and I don't spend all my time studying…

— Miguel Almiron

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

— Aldous Huxley

I have a couple of dogs and I live with my partner. We just like to sit and read and I'm generally quite quiet.

— Derren Brown