| "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention." »Francis Bacon |
| "When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer." »Real Live Preacher |
| "Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be read once." »Cyril Connolly |
| "Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely." »Hesketh Pearson |
| "Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend to read it a second time is to meet an old one." »Selwyn Champion |
| "One thing is clear to me. You cant know everything youd like to know. You cant do everything youd like to do. You cant read everything youd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life." »Real Live Preacher |
| "For aesthetics is the mother of ethics. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens." »Joseph Brodsky |
| "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." »Mark Twain |
| "The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews." »William Faulkner |
| "There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read." »G. K. Chesterton |
| "A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read." »Mark Twain |
| "It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more." »Winston Churchill |
| "We read that we ought to forgive our enemies but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends." »Francis Bacon |
| "Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot." »Chinese Proverb |
| "If you believe everything you read, better not read." »Japanese Proverb |
| "I have read your book and much like it." »Moses Hadas |
| "I read part of it all the way through." »Samuel Goldwyn |
| "Well, all I know is what I read in the papers." »Will Rogers |
| "The book you don't read cant help." »Jim Rohn |
| "Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin." »Charles Haddon Spurgeon |
| "Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard." »Daphne du Maurier |
| "When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before." »Clifton Paul Fadiman |
| "Never read a book that is not a year old." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Never read a book through merely because you have begun it." »John Witherspoon |
| "Live always in the best company when you read." »Sydney Smith |
| "No two persons ever read the same book." »Edmund Wilson |
| "It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "Usenet is like Tetris for people who still know how to read." »Computer Museum |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
