Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
Jorge Luis Borges

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
Edith Sitwell

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
Samuel Johnson

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.
William Shatner

I don't want little kids reading my comics.
Jhonen Vasquez

I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.
Jhonen Vasquez

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
Quentin Crisp

There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.
Carrie Underwood

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.
Jacques Derrida

When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
Irvine Welsh

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.
Edwin Louis Cole

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
Moliere

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Pablo Neruda

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.
Augusten Burroughs

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.
Pierre Trudeau

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Antonin Artaud

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Samuel Butler

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
M. H. Abrams