I'm good at reading people.Al Alvarez

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.  Arthur C. Clarke

I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.V. S. Naipaul

Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt. Shel Silverstein 

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.     Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. S. I. Hayakawa

In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly. Liam Neeson

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.Thomas Carlyle

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves self-discipline with all of them came first. Harry S. Truman