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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.
- Julia Quinn

That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you onto another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive-- all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.
- Annie Barrows

That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.
- Mary Ann Shaffer

...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
- Alan Bennett

Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we're still alone... each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort it is to share readings and experiences. How lucky we are when we get to be alone together.
- John Green

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.
- James Patterson

The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life
- George R R Martin

We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it.
- Charlaine Harris

For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community.
- Bell Hooks

The annoying thing about reading is that you can never get the job done.
- Nick Hornby

It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.
- Joyce Meyer

What I like most about reading is I can read in minutes what it took the author hours to write. What I like most about writing is readers can read in minutes what it took me seconds to write.
- Jarod Kintz

A brick is used to label a missed shot in basketball. However, a better term to call a missed shot, or any shot in basketball, would be a "Movado," because it's a waste of time. Instead of spending your free time trying to put a ball in a net, how about reading a few books.
- Jarod Kintz

On the wall next to the table, next to the scones that provided each table with its own circle of lamplight were quotations about reading, her favorite of which was from Kafka: 'A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
- Haven Kimmel

There is something awfully nice about reading a book again, with all the half-unconscious memories it brings back.
- C S Lewis

The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual objects, I think our eyes are obviously directed outward, so there's not as much reflective time. And it's the reflectiveness and the spiritual inwardness about reading that appeals to me.
- Joyce Carol Oates

I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.
- Harvey Weinstein

That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
- Al Yankovic

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