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

—Ray Bradbury

When you stack up all the years we are allowed against all there is to read, time is very short indeed.    —Stephen King

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

—Harper Lee

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

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

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. Menchen

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.                        —S. I. Hayakawa

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

—Japanese proverb

After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless.

—Chinese proverb

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

—Thomas Carlyle

A classic is a book which people praise and don’t read.

—Mark Twain

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

—P.J. O’Rourke