American life Quote by Bill Bryson

In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and 'The Literary…

— Bill Bryson

“I then completely gave up reading newspapers and watching television, which freed up a considerable amount of time (say one hour or more a…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted that her…

— Jimmy Buffett

“When it worked, reading could take away the burden of time.”

— Nic Pizzolatto

“Mature readers consider reading an integral part of life. It is not something they do only to relax or to escape or if there…

— Judith Wynn Halsted

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is…

— Samuel Johnson

“Alongside the wide participation in everyday reading of newspapers and magazines, the era of 'mass reading' of books that characterised the period from the…

— Tony Bennett

“Reading is a respite from the restlessness of technology, but it's not only that. It's how I reset and recharge. It's how I escape,…

— Will Schwalbe

The early development of speed reading can be traced to the beginning of the (20th) century, when the publication explosion swamped readers with more…

— Tony Buzan

I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means…

— Alexander Theroux

In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . .…

— Douglas Coupland

“Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I kept that…

— Louis L'Amour