The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.     Abraham Lincoln

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary.  It is the only art which can be practised at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.  Holbrook Jackson

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. Ursula K. Le Guin

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. Ross MacDonald

The way a book is read-which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book-can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it. Norman Cousins

The wise man reads both books and life itself.  Lin Yutang

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. John Wooden 

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.  James Bryce

There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.Tom Felton

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away.  No one has stepped twice into the same river.  But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?  Marina Tsvetaeva