I never read. It prevents me from thinking.

I never read. I just look at pictures.

Gentlemen, I speak for myself as well as for you: I never read anything about what may come before me in a Court of Justice; I keep my mind free from everything of the kind. There is often a necessity for me to look into the law: but I never suffer my mind to be biassed by reports, or such papers or pamphlets as are written with a view to pervert justice.

I never touch nothing with writing on it.

...don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience...

Never read a book review written by an author whose books you wouldn't read.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.

If they wrote it to make money, don't read it.

Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache.

No. If you don't read, are you safe?

I never notice what is said about me. I am credited with things I have never done, and abused for them. It would be idle to attempt to contradict newspaper talk and street rumors.

Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.