Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer,write

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books