People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author.Alison Bechdel

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.  Logan Pearsall Smith

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.Stendhal

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.     Socrates

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.Mason Cooley

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.  Ezra Pound