Admirable Quote by A. J. P. Taylor

I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book.

— Evangeline Lilly

Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's why I…

— Tara Bray Smith

I feel most myself when I'm reading, but by that I don't mean that I'm most comfortable when I'm reading. I feel most fully…

— Dan Chiasson

Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to…

— Benjamin Franklin

When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself.

— Mark Twain

When I am near the end of a book, I have to sleep in the same room with it.

— Joan Didion

I remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book that he…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude…

— H. G. Wells

I read to make myself feel awake.

— George Saunders

I read till I fall asleep. Daytime actually I feel guilty reading - I always feel I should be doing something else!

— Rajkumar Hirani

Daydreaming while you're reading, then having to re-read what you just read.

— Anonymous

Usually when I'm on a plane, I try to enjoy the fact that I have to be still for eight hours and read a…

— Michiel Huisman