Alert Quote by Charles Dudley Warner

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

— James Patterson

Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.

— Anonymous

It alarms me to think of all that I have read and how little of it has stayed with me.

— Hugh Laurie

Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.

— Walter Moers

What you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

— Anonymous

I don't read a lot of things, and if I hear things, I don't really think about them because it's useless.

— Mousa Dembele

I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

— Jamaica Kincaid

I never read because I always feel there's something more important to do, despite the fact I never do anything worthwhile.

— Steve Fowler

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

— Paulo Coelho

I don't want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

— Anonymous

I have never read it. You should not waste your time.

— Kenneth Clarke