W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Yes, I don't read books for entertainment.

I read a lot of detective novels.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

If people didn't read books on the subway, underground journeys would be dreary.

Holidays can become tedious without something to read.

...books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.

I like to go to the movies or read.

I try to read as much as I can - all the time, really. And I absolutely love going to the cinema, especially during the day.

I do read a lot. I read more than I watch movies.

My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books.

I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books.

As long as I have books and DVDs, I don't miss much.

I read in all forms: paper, computer, phone, audio.

Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.

Most books are three-thirds rubbish.

I'm actually not that big a fan of reading.

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books.

I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.

Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.

I just stopped reading a lot of books. I mean, I read books that I have to read for school, but I don't actually pick up a book and read for fun. On my time off, I go to movies, hang out with friends, go shopping...just little things.

I wasn't interested in the kinds of books that I thought I should be reading.

You have the power to pause stuff and you have the power to go to the bathroom. You can do whatever you want in your own home. It's a much more relaxed thing. It's more like a book, it seems to me. That's kind of the way I watch movies.

I'm sitting in the bus station, minding my own business, reading 'Ta-Da!' magazine; a magazine by and for gay magicians, but that's a different story.