“You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows are responding to the attention you pay them.”

“There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.”

Laura Lippman (1959) Detective fiction writer

“Believe what you like, but don't believeyou read without questioning it.”

Pauline Baynes (1922–2008) English illustrator of children's books

“You tell a kid he doesn't like to read, and he'll believe you”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

“Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read… if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.”

Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director

“Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.”

Rodman Philbrick book Freak the Mighty

“Everything that happens to you is a form of instruction if you pay attention.”

Robert Greene book Mastery

“Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.”

Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) English author and academic

“You don't know what I'm all about / Like killing cops and reading Kerouac”

Blake Schwarzenbach (1967) American singer

“By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent.”

Gary Shteyngart Super Sad True Love Story