American politics Quote by Markham Shaw Pyle

“This country needs more readers and less talkers. At least that's my opinion.”

— Dennis Sharpe

“The public is largely influenced by the look of a book. So are we all. It is the only artistic thing about the public.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Few people actually read. Instead, everyone likes pretending they read. If we spent as much time reading as we say we do, we'd be…

— Dan Wilbur

“I know from personal experience that readers lead richer lives, more lives, than those who don’t read.”

— Donalyn Miller

“Most people are widely read. I'm thinly read. I've read *** all, and I'm very proud of it.”

— Eddie Izzard

“It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read,…

— Samuel Johnson

“People don’t read as much anymore. That’s why they’re so stupid.”

— Isabella Fontaine

“Reading is like running: like it or not we all have to do it. Everybody on this planet needs to be able to read.…

— Nicholas Black

“Too much freedom of the press is unhealthy for a democracy, I declared.”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“The country with the most writers is ironically probably the country with the least readers—USA. And once my parents die, my entire reading base…

— Jarod Kintz

“You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.”

— Don Roff

“People should read more.”

— Aaron B. Powell