If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours.

What is reading but silent conversation?

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

We read to know that we are not alone.

Reading means borrowing.

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.

Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.

He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.

I took a course in speed reading, learning to read straight down the middle of the page, and was able to read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It's about Russia.

Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequaled by any other form of communication.

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

I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.

Reading one's own poems aloud is letting the cat out of the bag. You may have always suspected bits of a poem to be overweighted, overviolent, or daft, and then, suddenly, with the poet's tongue around them, your suspicion is made certain.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.