Reading Quotes

I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

I'm mad about good books, can't get my fill .

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound.

Reading Clausewitz makes you take your own thoughts a little less seriously.

I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice. You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

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.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people.

I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.

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

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems.

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

I spend a lot of time reading.