Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying, or meditating, or endeavoring something for the public good.”  Thomas a Kempis

Never judge a book by its movie.  J.W. Eagan

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.  Anatole France

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.    John Witherspoon

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column. Dave Barry 

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.  Mary Wortley Montagu

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.Edvard Munch

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.     Confucious

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.Robert Byrne

No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted. The last 25 years of research show that reading aloud to a child is the oldest, cheapest and must successful method of instilling that desire. Shooting baskets with a child creates a basketball player; reading to a child creates a reader.     Jim Trelease

Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.”  Robert Byrne

None is poor save him that lacks knowledge.     The Talmud

Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.  Charles Dudley Warner

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin. Quentin Crisp