The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
Tom Wolfe

The wise man reads both books and life itself.
Lin Yutang

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
Annie Dillard

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
J. M. Coetzee

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Benjamin Franklin

Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets.
George Murray

What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you don't protect it, you lose it.
Dexter S. King

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
Walter Scott

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
E. M. Forster

When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers.
David Amram

Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.
Dwight L. Moody

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.
Mark Haddon