See also:  Writing

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer  Lord Byron

If we encountered a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body  Richard Steele/Joseph Addison

Where do I find all the time for not reading so many books?  Karl Kraus

He that loves reading has everything within his reach  William Godwin

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for  Socrates

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all  Henry David Thoreau

A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good  Samuel Johnson

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting  Edmund Burke

Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading  G.M. Trevelyan

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text  Henry James

When we read we may not only be kings and live in palaces, but, what is far better, we may transport ourselves to the mountains or the seashore, and visit the most beautiful parts of the earth, without fatigue, inconvenience, or expense  John Lubbock

There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate  L. de Montesquieu

A reader cannot be more rationally entertained than by comparing and drawing a parallel between his own private character and that of other persons  Joseph Addison

It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different  Christian Morgenstern

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them  Mark Twain