May I propose a Herzog dictum? Those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.Werner Herzog
I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole new world in books. If you can’t afford to travel, you travel mentally through reading. You can see anything and go any place you want to in reading.Michael Jackson
Read books, because the data rate of reading is much greater than when somebody is speaking.Elon Musk
Perhaps at the end of this century, two classes of men will be distinguished: some formed by television and others by reading.Ernst Jünger
Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.William Faulkner
I’m always reading books as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I’ll always be in supply.Ernest Hemingway
In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time, none, zero.Charlie Munger
Those who read own the world; those who immerse themselves in the Internet or watch too much television lose it. Our civilization is suffering profound wounds because of the wholesale abandonment of reading by contemporary society.Werner Herzog
You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.Paul Rand
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.Abraham Lincoln
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.Jim Rohn
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.Albert Einstein
From my own experience, I know how important reading together can be for parents and children.Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.Oscar Wilde
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.Lawrence Clark Powell
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.Maya Angelou
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.Dr. Seuss
Reading was my escape, my relief, and my solace, my favorite stimulant: reading for pure pleasure, for the beautiful stillness that envelops you when you hear an author's words in your head.Lauren Oliver
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.W. Somerset Maugham
The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.Raymond Aron
You can't replace reading with other sources of information like videos, because you need to read in order to write well, and you need to write in order to think well.Paul Graham