“She likes to read, she reads all the time, and she prefers to be reading several things at once, she says it gives endless perspective and dimension.”

“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

“She read everything.”

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer

“Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.”

Lois Lowry (1937) American writer

“She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.”

Thorne Smith (1892–1934) an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction

“When she wanted to escape her life, she read books”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

“Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.”

Virginia Woolf book Monday or Tuesday

“See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.”

Rebecca Wells book Little Altars Everywhere

“She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him.”

Eudora Welty book One Writer's Beginnings

“She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God