I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.
Chuck Jones

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.
Naguib Mahfouz

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.
Naguib Mahfouz

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Joseph Addison

I'm good at reading people.
Al Alvarez

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
Christina Aguilera

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
Amy Tan

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Joseph Addison

I recommend the art of slow reading.
Amos Oz

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
Luciano Pavarotti

Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.
Bob Geldof

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

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

I keep reading between the lies.
Goodman Ace

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
Stendhal

What is reading, but silent conversation.
Charles Lamb

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.
Peter Ustinov

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

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

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