Quotes about reading

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

John Burroughs

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

John Ruskin

I did not have to read books to know that the theme of life is conflict and pain.

Charlie Chaplin

I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.

Oprah Winfrey

The writer has three sources: one is observation; one is experience, which includes reading; the other is imagination.

William Faulkner

If you can’t read the scoreboard. You don’t know the score. If you don’t know the score, you can’t tell the winners from the losers.

Warren Buffett

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

Jeff Bezos

Rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read.

Frank Zappa

To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

Mark Zuckerberg