Read, read, read.
-William Faulkner
I'm always reading
or thinking about reading.
-Joyce Carol Oates
He that loves reading
has everything within his reach.
-William Godwin
With one day's reading
a man may have the key in his hands.
-Ezra Pound
Reading gives us someplace to go
when we have to stay where we are.
-Mason Cooley
As long as I am reading,
I am at home.
-George Foreman
It is books that are a key to the wide world;
if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.
-Jane Hamilton
Read in order to live.
-Gustave Flaubert
Life happened because I turned the pages.
-Alberto Manguel
Keep reading.
It's one of the most marvelous adventures
that anyone can have.
-Lloyd Alexander
The ability to read awoke inside me
some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
-Malcolm X
Reading is to the mind
what exercise is to the body.
-Joseph Addison
A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart,
not so much with his brain, but with his spine.
It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...
-Vladimir Nabokov
Reading is like looking through several windows
which open to an infinite landscape.
-Isabel Allende
To read is to fly:
it is to soar to a point of vantage
which gives a view over wide terrains
of history, human variety, ideas,
shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
-Alberto Manguel
The greatest gift is a passion for reading.
It is cheap, it consoles,
it distracts, it excites,
it gives you knowledge of the world
and experience of a wide kind.
It is a moral illumination.
-Elizabeth Hardwick
No entertainment is as cheap as reading,
nor any pleasure so long lasting.
-Mary Wortley Montagu
We should read to give our souls
a chance to luxuriate.
-Henry Miller
Reading is a basic tool
for the living of a good life.
-Joseph Addison
The main effort of arranging your life
should be to progressively reduce the amount of time
required to decently maintain yourself
so that you can have all the time you want for reading.
-Norman Rush
We read to train the mind,
to fill the mind, to rest the mind,
to recreate the mind, or to escape the mind.
-Holbrook Jackson
We read to know we are not alone.
-C. S. Lewis
One reads alone,
even if in another's presence.
-Italo Calvino
A good reader
seldom recognizes his solitude.
-Mason Cooley
I've never known any trouble
that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Reading is thinking with someone else's head
instead of your own.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Reading is a means
of thinking with another person's mind;
it forces you to stretch your own.
-Charles Scribner, Jr
To read a writer is for me
not merely to get an idea of what he says,
but to go off with him and travel in his company.
-Andre Gide
What is reading but silent conversation?
-Walter Savage Landor
The art of reading is in great part
that of acquiring a better understanding of life
from one's encounter with it in a book.
-Andre Maurois
When we read,
we are not looking for new ideas,
but to see our own thoughts
given the seal of confirmation on the printed page.
The words that strike us are those that awake an echo
in a zone we have already made our own -
the place where we live -
and the vibration allows us to find
fresh starting points within ourselves.
-Cesare Pavese
Don't read anything except what destroys the insulation
between yourself and your experience
and what pulls down or what strikes at or what shatters
this ruse you call necessity.
-Louise Erdrich
For one who reads,
there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.
-Louis L'Amour
Nobody knows that in reading
we are re-living our temptations to be a poet.
All readers who have a certain passion for reading,
nurture and repress, through reading,
the desire to become a writer.
-Gaston Bachelard
In reality, every reader is, while reading,
the reader of his own self.
-Marcel Proust
I read books to read myself.
-Sven Birkerts
We must form our minds
by reading deep rather than wide.
-Marcus Fabius Quintilian
Reading is important -
read between the lines.
Don't swallow everything.
-Gwendolyn Brooks
Reading without reflecting
is like eating without digesting.
-Edmund Burke
One must be an inventor to read well.
There is then creative reading
as well as creative writing.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
It would seem that the reader is called upon
to continue the writer's images;
he is aware of being in a state of open imagination.
-Gaston Bachelard
When we read a text, we are either read by the text
or we are in the text.
Either we tame the text we ride on it, we roll over it,
or we are swallowed up by it, as by a whale.
There are thousands of possible relations to a text,
and if we are in a nondefensive, nonresisting relationship,
we are carried off by the text.
This is mainly the way it goes.
But then, in order to read, we need to get out of the text.
We have to shuttle back and forth incessantly.
We have to try all possible relations with a text.
At some point, we have to disengage ourselves from the text as a living ensemble,
in order to study it construction, its techniques and its texture.
-Helene Cixous
Reading furnishes the mind
only with materials of knowledge;
it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
-John Locke
I suppose every old scholar has had the experience
of reading something in a book which was significant to him,
but which he could never find again.
Sure he is that he read it there,
but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again,
though he buy the book and ransack every page.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The writer only begins the book.
A reader finishes it.
-Samuel Johnson
What we become depends on what we read
after all of the professors have finished with us.
-Thomas Carlyle
Don't ask me who's influenced me.
A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested,
and I've been reading all my life.
-Charles de Gaulle
The pleasure of all reading is doubled
when one lives with another
who shares the same books.
-Katherine Mansfield
"Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are"
is true enough,
but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.
-Francois Mauriac
Rereading, we find a new book.
-Mason Cooley
The end of reading
is not more books but more life.
-Holbrook Jackson
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.
What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
-Henry David Thoreau
Properly, we should read for power.
Man reading should be man intensely alive.
The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
-Ezra Pound
I was born with a reading list I will never finish.
-Maud Casey
