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

What is reading, but silent conversation.
Charles Lamb

Hard writing makes easy reading.
Wallace Stegner

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
Heinrich Heine

The end of reading is not more books but more life.
Holbrook Jackson

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
Angela Carter

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

Yeah, that came out of a reading. It was great. It's such a fun crew to be with, and we all went out the night before and that really encouraged us to go out and get drunk.
John Leguizamo

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm good at reading people.
Al Alvarez

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.
Jonathan Davis

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Katherine Mansfield

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