- Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
- Ezra Pound - Woe be to him that reads but one book.
- George Herbert - A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
- Salman Rushdie - Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
- W. H. Auden - A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
- Erica Jong - Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
- John Locke - If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
- Francois de Fenelon - The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
- Katherine Mansfield - Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.
- Henry David Thoreau - We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
- B. F. Skinner - We read to know we are not alone.
- C. S. Lewis - Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
- William Cowper - Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
- Samuel Butler - Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
- Günther Grass - I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.
- Michel de Montaigne - Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
- G. K. Chesterton - A room without books is like a body without a soul.
- G. K. Chesterton - ... the creek runs on all night, ... as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.
- Annie Dillard - Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen.
- Louisa May Alcott - A reading, which has pleased, will please when repeated ten times.
- Horace - Reading maketh a full man.
-Francis Bacon - Books are meat and medicine/ and flame and flight and flower/ steel, stitch, cloud and clout,/ and drumbeats on the air.
- Gwendolyn Brooks - Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
- G. K. Chesterton
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