The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
B. F. Skinner

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke

Easy reading is damn hard writing.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Rene Descartes

I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend?
Adam Sandler

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Arthur Schopenhauer

I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
Babe Ruth

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Isaac Asimov

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
W. E. B. Du Bois

You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.
Maimonides

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.
Robert Byrne

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
Gloria Steinem

A book worth reading is worth buying.
John Ruskin

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
John Ruskin

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.
Jimmy Buffett

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.
Jimmy Buffett