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.
Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him. - Mike Tyson
So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads. - Dr. Seuss
I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go. - Jason Mraz
What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what's it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse. - Isaac Asimov
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. - Jim Rohn
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, the worst. What is the right use? What is the end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage. - Stanley Kubrick
I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old. - Stanley Kubrick
I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it. - Weird Al Yankovic
Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about. - Britney Spears
My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing. - Milla Jovovich
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leather boxes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. - Jim Rohn
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