The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.                                                                                   —Holbrook Jackson

There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as others are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.                                                                                           —H.L. Mencken

Each time we reread a book we get more out of it because we put more into it; a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book.                                                                 —Muriel Clark

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!  —Henry David Thoreau

If you believe everything you read, you better not read.

                                                                                 —Japanese proverb

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.       

                                                                                             —John Locke

While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.            —Cyril Connolly

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations — such is a pleasure beyond compare.                                     —Kenko Yoshida

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.                                                                                        —Ausustus Hare

Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.

                                                                                    —Cynthia Heimel

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goes out. The task of an educated mind is simply put: read to lead.                                    

                                                                                                      —Cicero

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity. 

                                                                             —Christopher Morley

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.           —William Styron

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.                                                                                 —Benjamin Franklin

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

                                                                                —Daniel J. Boorstin

If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.                 —Toni Morrison