I thought I'd begin by reading a sonnet by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

Read it as you would any other book think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes drive from your heart the phantom of fear push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness, and purity to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity.

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book

Reading maketh a full man.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.