"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."

"I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people."

"You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read."

"As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease."

"A book worth reading is worth buying."

"In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?"

"I write constantly, but only in my journals. I have three of them: one for travel, one for home, and one I write in before bed. But the last thing I want is other people reading it... What's really fun is reading your journal, like a year later."

"Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices."

"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."

"He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line."

"I am a part of everything that I have read."

"Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit."

"The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader."

Reading about the lives of other achievers and their impact on our world inspires me to continue to help others realize their greatness. 

“I just read about a schoolteacher who got hurt. She was grading papers on a curve!” 

Still, though reading absorbed her, what the Queen had not expected was the degree to which it drained her of enthusiasm for anything else.

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

It alarms me to think of all that I have read and how little of it has stayed with me.

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on.

I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.