„Please,” Alec said, pulling out his stele. “I can read your face like a very open, very pornographic book. I wish I couldn’t.“

— Cassandra Clare

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„"Maybe you should try looking a little less smug about what you did last night.""I do not look smug. Well, no more than usual.""Please, I can read your face like a very open, very pornographic book. I wish I couldn't."“
— Cassandra Clare
„I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.“
— Haruki Murakami
„Why do you like Miss Austen so very much? I am puzzled on that point … I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a commonplace (everyday) face; carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of bright vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses.“
— Jane Austen
„I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.“
— Groucho Marx
„I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine against a wall."“
— Eleanor Roosevelt
„This must be what an addict feels like, I think,trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.“
— Jodi Picoult