Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. - Albert Einstein

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. - Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start. - John Greene, Paper Towns

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs. - Anne Fadiman

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”

- Arnold Lobel

I am a part of everything that I have read. - Theodore Roosevelt

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else. - Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

There is creative reading as well as creative writing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. - Edmund Burke

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. - John Locke

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books. - Garl Paulsen, Shelf LIfe: Stories by the Book

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...- Vladimir Nabokov

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read. - John Adams

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have. - Lloyd Alexzander

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot. - Bill Gates

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today. - Holbrook Jackson