Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.Ramakrishna

Many people, other than the authors, contribute to the making of a book, from the first person who had the bright idea of alphabetic writing through the inventor of movable type to the lumberjacks who felled the trees that were pulped for its printing.  It is not customary to acknowledge the trees themselves, though their commitment is total.  Forsyth and Rada

Many persons read and like fiction.  It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.  Rose Macaulay

Medicine for the soul.  Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes

More people should use their library.     Regis Philbin

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death hath no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.  J. Swartz

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 

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. Malcolm X 

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.Thomas Hardy

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.Naguib Mahfouz

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.Edward Gibbon 

My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.Steve Nash

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.Wole Soyinka

My library was dukedom large enough.     William Shakespeare (The Tempest)

My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading. Alicia Keys