Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking

The way a book is read which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it

She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about orgasms, but apart from making a mental note to have one if ever the occasion presented itsel

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.