Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.  Christopher Morley

Readers may be divided into four classes: 1.) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2.) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3.) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4.) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also.Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.  William Styron

Reading a book is like rewriting it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.   Angela Carter

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God. George Washington Carver 

Reading aloud to children teaches vocabulary in one of the most natural ways possible. Most of the questions come from them rather than the teacher.  Words that are puzzling can be quickly explained in the context of the story. Frank B. May

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software. Arthur C. Clarke

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

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.James Earl Jones

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.  Mason Cooley