No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Mary Wortley Montagu

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Charles de Secondat

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

Reading is the crucial, fundamental cornerstone of all that your child will accomplish, or attempt to accomplish, during his school career.
Bob Chase, The New Public School Parent

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him.
Samuel Johnson

I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading.
Charles Lamb

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim Rohn

I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.
Gracie Allen

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan Pearsall Smith

Reading is a uniquely human skill as well as an art.
John Waldman

The true measure of reading ability is the ease and accuracy with which a person can understand diverse kinds of writing.
E.D. Hirsch Jr.

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder / That such trivial people should muse and thunder / In such lovely language.
D.H. Lawrence