Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.  François Mauriac

That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there.David Amram

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.  Amos Bronson Alcott

That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers; And sometimes, for variety, I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues. Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.Nicholson Baker

The ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. Autobiography of Malcolm X

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.  André Maurois

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.Samuel Butler

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.     Thomas Carlyle