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| Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking. | | Edward Gibbon | |
| Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
| No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one | | Robert Byrne | |
| One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer | | Lord Byron | |
| Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases. | | Evelyn Waugh | |
| Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. | | George Herbert | |
| Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition - then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness, and purity to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. | | Robert Green Ingersoll | |
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| Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer. | | Edgar Watson Howe | |
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| Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. | | Albert Einstein | |
| The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own | | Robert Green Ingersoll | |
| The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works | | James Joyce | |
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| The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer | | Will Rogers | |
| The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them. | | Samuel Butler | |
| The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts in it. Anyone who can read, can learn to read deeply and thus live more fully. | | Norman Cousins | |
