At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
R. A. Salvatore

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
R. A. Salvatore

I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
Larry David

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.
Franklin P. Jones

Easy reading is damn hard writing.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'
Peter Lynch

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
Beverly Cleary

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.
Beverly Cleary

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
Beverly Cleary

A book worth reading is worth buying.
John Ruskin

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
Miguel de Cervantes

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Aleister Crowley

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
John Ruskin

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Horace Mann

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
Raymond Chandler

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

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.
Francis Quarles

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.
Robert Benchley