The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.  Oliver Wendell Holmes

The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed; but the great book has its revenge.  It lives to see its contemporary pushed up shelf by shelf until it finds its final resting-place in the garret or the auction room.  Hamilton Wright Mabie

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.    James McCosh

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.Pablo Neruda

The connection between reading speed and comprehension; a film is made up of still images flashed in rapid succession to simulate movement. Slow down the film, and the movement and meaning slows and the film's impact is diminished. Viewers won't learn as much about the film as if it were shown at normal speed. With reading the same thing can happen. When a person reads word by word, like frame by frame, they are not reading on the level of ideas. You need to read on some level that's more conversational and allows things to coalesce into ideas themselves.  Doug Evans

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse. Robert Morgan

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.Isaac Disraeli

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works. James Joyce 

The end of reading is not more books but more life.Holbrook Jackson

The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading.Bobby Orr