A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.  Erica Jong

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

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.  Jeremy Collier

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.Robert Rauschenberg

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.John McCarthy

After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.Taryn Manning

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.Jean Cocteau

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.Penelope Lively

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.  P.J. O'Rourke

And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about.Lawrence Taylor