Beach Quote by John Edgar Wideman

Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated,…

— Thomas S. Monson

I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

— Oscar Levant

What I do usually is read the book first, for pleasure, to see if my brain starts connecting with it, as a movie. And…

— Richard LaGravenese

If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly,…

— Margaret Atwood

“The process of reading a book takes a while to get used to (in this future society). It's so slow and laborious. But once…

— Mike A. Lancaster

Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay…

— Markus Zusak

I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.

— Erica Jong

This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand…

— John Locke

Every book leaves its mark on you. It might leave you hungry for that kind of book or you may be satiated, and you're…

— Laila Lalami

“Nothing takes you out of yourself the way a good book does, but at the same time nothing makes you more aware of yourself…

— Wendy Lesser

I think books find their way to you when you need them. Whenever I feel like I'm not going to live to read all…

— Rosanne Cash

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

— Anonymous