Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.  Harold Bloom

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke 

Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.Stephen Ambrose

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein 

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.Ben Okri

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. Jean Jacques Rousseau 

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. Marston Bates

Research we've done seems to indicate that people who are on the Net like the idea that they don't have to leave what they are reading to go buy something. Jay Chiat

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence.  If you gain fifteen minutes a day,  it will make itself felt at the end of the year.Horace Mann