Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side. Marilyn vos Savant 

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter. Paxton Hood

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. Mark Twain 

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.Margaret Mahy

Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.Bob Edwards

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.  George Steiner

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.  Walter Pater

Books are delightful society.  If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome. William Ewart Gladstone

Books are embalmed minds.  Bovee

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.  Plato

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.  E.P. Whipple