I want leisure to read — an immense amount.

I don't study literature, I read it for enjoyment

I just read and read and read. ... I have always enjoyed reading.

Read a lot — just read.

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

People say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Anyway — because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next — and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis — at any time of night or day.

Nor did I make any distinctions between great literature and any other kind. I just liked reading.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

I’ll read as I please—a spot of science fiction, a taste of Jane Austen. Mark Twain and Keats and Agatha Christie shall sit cheek by jowl on my night table. And I’ll make it a point of honor to finish no book I’m not enjoying, also to skip as much and as often as I like. If I want to peek to see how a novel comes out, I’ll feel perfectly justified. I’ll go to Plato when I’m in the mood and the newest thriller when I’m not. For again, the little vices bring relaxation; and a bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides that necessary roughage in the literary diet.

When I am not walking, I am reading;

One receives the impression from his writings that he made it his plan to read any book whatever that no one else can bear to read.

I reads every chance I can gets.