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

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. Naipaul

I recommend the art of slow reading.
Amos Oz

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
Oscar Levant

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
Clarence Day

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan P. Smith

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
Anthony Burgess

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
Mason Cooley

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
Mason Cooley

In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly.
Liam Neeson

While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.
Mason Cooley

That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.
Nicholson Baker

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.
Richard Steele

I enjoyed reading as a child.
Goh C. Tong

It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
Gary Oldman

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.
Robert Rauschenberg

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.
Don Marquis

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.
Samuel Richardson

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante