“If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.”

“I'd treat myself to a reading marathon all weekend. All the ice cream I could eat, all the pages I could read..”

Laurie Halse Anderson (1961) American children's writer

“Oh! journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.”

Alan Shepard (1923–1998) American astronaut

“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

“They would give us these helicopter rides, and every time we'd get on, the drivers would say "now do you want to ride, or do you want to rrrride? On the helicopter! I'd be like "I want the ride… the first one… the boring one… the ride. I don't want the "rrrride"… I want the ride!”

Kathy Griffin (1960) American actress and comedian

“If many great books seem unreadable and unintelligible … it may be because we have not for a long time learned to read by reading them. Great books teach people not only how to read them, but how to read all other books.”

Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899–1977) philosopher and university president

“Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature