Quotes On Reading

I love books where you can't get out of bed. You want to consume them in one sitting, devour them. Those are my favorites, where you've almost abandoned your life for them. That doesn't happen every time, but those are the best.

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.