Quotes about reading

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly.

Coco Chanel

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he’s a victim of the times. I wear the black for those who never read.

Johnny Cash

I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: He fornicated and read the papers.

Albert Camus

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

David Bowie

As an actor, it’s a relatively passive job unless you’re generating your own content or writing your own content. So to a certain degree you’re at the mercy of what is available, what you’re reading, what you become passionate about, and ultimately, what people want to hire you for.

Elijah Wood

People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can’t read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.

Yoko Ono

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

Thomas Jefferson

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

Oscar Wilde

I’m very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

Johnny Cash