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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon

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

Easy reading is damn hard writing.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.
Robert Benchley

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.
Mick Jagger

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

I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.
Dean Koontz

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke

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

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
William Penn

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