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

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

My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.
Alicia Keys

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.
Lynn Abbey

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

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.
Arthur C. Clarke

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
Ramakrishna

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
Irving Babbitt

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.
Mary Oliver

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

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

Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better relate, understand, and communicate with our families and loved ones. Dr. Phil recommended reading my new book.
Louie Anderson

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

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

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

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

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.
Robert Byrne

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

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