“She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn’t taste bad, but she was still unhappy.”

“She read a lot, wrote letters without the letter ъ, …”

Anton Chekhov book The Lady with the Dog

“[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.”

Robin McKinley book The Blue Sword

“She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.”

Charles Frazier (1950) American writer

“Teach a child to read and he/she will pass a literary test.”

George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States

“Y'all don't treat women fair
She read about herself in the bible
Believing she the reason sin is here”

Nas (1973) American rapper, record producer and entrepreneur

“Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.”

Tracy Chevalier (1962) American writer

“She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.”

Jane Hamilton (1957) American novelist

“She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.”

Elizabeth George Speare book The Witch of Blackbird Pond

“My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.”

Gene Simmons (1949) Israeli-born American rock bass guitarist, singer-songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, and actor