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

“Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.”

Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author

“I just read and read and read. … I have always enjoyed reading.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

“Reading ideas improves,
reading stories entertains,
reading the news informs,
reading books teaches,
reading the song rhymes”

Josephs Quartzy (1999) Tanzanian actor

“And everyone's reading, you have to read, you can't be on the tube without reading, reading is very important. You get on on the morning and every single person is reading the Metro. Everyone, everyone. [imitates line of people reading newspaper] Why doesn't one person just read it to the carriage?”

Michael McIntyre (1976) British comedian

“Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

“Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read-ultimately you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.”

Sören Kierkegaard book Stages on Life's Way

“All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.”

Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist

“Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”

Carolyn Keene book The Secret of the Old Clock

“Read deep! Read often! Out-READ the 'Competition'!!!”

Tom Peters (1942) American writer on business management practices