The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.

-Mark Twain

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

-Ralph Waldo Emeson

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader

_Robet Frost

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

-Arthur Schopenhauer

A book worth reading is worth buying.

-John Ruskin

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

-Voltaire

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

-Joseph Joubert