„Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.“

„Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.“

—  Isaac Asimov American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction and popular … 1920 - 1992

„A book worth reading is worth owning.“

—  John Ruskin English writer and art critic 1819 - 1900

„The heart is the only book worth reading.“

—  Ajahn Chah thai Buddhist monk 1918 - 1992

„Lists of books we re-read and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves“

—  Russell Banks American author 1940

„What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.“

—  Rikki Ducornet American writer and artist 1949

„Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.“

—  Colette 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi 1873 - 1954

„She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.“

—  Thorne Smith an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction 1892 - 1934

„None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.“

—  Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

„He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.“

—  Elfriede Jelinek, buch Wonderful, Wonderful Times

„This book will take you two days to read. Did you even see the cover? It’s mostly pink. If you’re reading this book every night for months, something is not right.“

—  Mindy Kaling, buch Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

„Read a lot, listen well and deeply, and write a lot. […] If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.“

—  Natalie Goldberg, buch Writing Down the Bones

„History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book.“

—  Amit Chaudhuri contemporary Indian-English novelist 1962

„Take no heed of her…. She reads a lot of books.“

—  Jasper Fforde, buch Der Fall Jane Eyre

„If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.“

—  Jane Wagner Playwright, actress 1935

„If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.“

—  Lily Tomlin American actress, comedian, writer, and producer 1939

„There are books that I own that somehow even without reading them they mean something to me. So I think people have a relationship with books in a library whether you’ve come specifically to read them or not.“

—  Rem Koolhaas Dutch architect (b.1944) 1944

„Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.“

—  R.L. Stine American writer and producer 1943

„When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.“

—  William Goldman, buch The Princess Bride

„Is this a book exhausted from too much reading? Or too little reading?“

—  Peter Greenaway British film director 1942