Ayobami Adebayo
Ayobami Adebayo

My mother used to laugh that if they asked me to clean up my room, I would spend so much time reading every tiny bit of paper, a receipt or whatever, instead of throwing it in the trash.

Barry Barish
Barry Barish

I actually spent a lot of time reading about how professional managers work. And how people build bridges.

Bill Gates
Bill Gates

I spend a lot of time reading.

Blake Bailey
Blake Bailey

I'm a huge fan of 'The Lost Weekend.' I have this dog-eared copy of the 1963 Time Reading Program edition, which was a series of contemporary classics reprinted as a quality paperback.

Caroline Wozniacki
Caroline Wozniacki

Honestly, I don't really read about myself. I look at the pictures sometimes. Sometimes I'm looking at them, and I'm thinking, 'They could choose some better ones.' But I don't spend time reading about myself because I know what I'm up to. I prefer to read about other people.

Cathleen Schine
Cathleen Schine

If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there isn't much room for anything else.

Daphne Bavelier
Daphne Bavelier

Everybody thought that screen time was bad for vision. Well, it happens that spending a lot of time reading on a computer is bad for your vision, but spending a lot of time playing first-person-shooter games is good for your vision.

Frank Crane
Frank Crane

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Jimmy Carr
Jimmy Carr

I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading books.

Joan Jett
Joan Jett

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.