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

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.     —P.J. O’Rourke

After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless.

—Chinese proverb

Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make life full, significant, and interesting.                               —Aldous Huxley

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

—Henry David Thoreau

I love to lose myself in other men’s minds.             —Charles Lamb

It is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one’s life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

—Jane Austen

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.  —Katherine Mansfield

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

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