When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.     Maya Angelou

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. Henny Youngman 

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.  Marie de Sevigne

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.Lynn Abbey

When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.Irvine Welsh

When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us. Dorothy Day 

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.David Brainerd

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.W. E. B. Du Bois

When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before.Clifton Fadiman

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just  ounces of paper and ink and glue  you sell him a whole new life. Christopher Morley