Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it well. - Peter Ustinov

I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?- Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being. - Gary Shteyngart

Reading is dreaming with open eyes. - YoYo

A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is
To meet an antique book
In just the dress his century wore;
A privilege, I think,

His venerable hand to take,
And warming in our own,
A passage back, or two, to make
To times when he was young.

His quaint opinions to inspect,
His knowledge to unfold
On what concerns our mutual mind,
The literature of old...

-Emily Dickinson

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.

- David Quaimen

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing. - Robert G Ingersoll

People who say they don't have time to read simply don't want to. - Julie Rugg, A Book Addict's Treasury

Reading every day keeps the brain dead sickness away. - Kristy Pellegrin

Take a good book to bed with you - books do not snore. - Thea Dorn

Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power. - Michael Foot

I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to read, but I just don’t have time,’ I’m thinking, ‘How can you not have time?’ I read when I’m drying my hair. I read in the bath. I read when I’m sitting in the bathroom. Pretty much anywhere I can do the job one-handed, I read.

- JK Rowling