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“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time -- none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads--and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.”
― Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

“Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

“When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and depth of understanding out of that than reading a scrap here and a scrap there and elsewhere. Then go to people who influenced that writer, or those who were related to him, and your world builds together in an organic way that is really marvelous.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

“Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice - read books.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour.”
― Jazz Feylynn

“I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read in, or be read to.”
― Eudora Welty

“Read different to think differently; world is already into rat race.”
― Aman Jassal, Rainbow - the shades of love

“All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a pond. The good news is that the acts of searching and gathering always expand the number of usable words.”
― Roy Peter Clark, Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer

“For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has only a very sketchy relation with the habits of any real readers. Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table.”
― C.S. Lewis, Of This and Other Worlds

“Self learner; reading.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Reading is a particularly effective counterbalance to many of the negative effects of other forms of entertainment we consume... Holding a book in your hands and slowing down to read offers an antidote to digital overload.”
― Thatcher Wine, The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better

“The disadvantage of reading aloud remained the fact that it took longer. But books read aloud also stayed long in my memory.
عيب القراءة بصوتٍ عالٍ أنها تستغرق وقتاً أطول، لكن الكتب المقرؤة بصوتٍ عالٍ أيضًا تظلَّ فترة في ذاكراتي .”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

“Each Reading is another form of Time Travel or Experiencing the Multiverse.”
― Pradip Bendkule

“Anything worth reading is not only worth reading twice, but worth reading again and again. If a book is worthwhile, then you will always be able to make new discoveries in it and find things in it that you didn’t notice before, even though you have read it many times.”
― Karl Popper

“to play a solitary game of chequers,
to read, to write �� what should I do?”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Thy profit shall be little in any book, unless thou read alone, and unless thou read all, and record after, as the Bereans did the sermons of Paul.”
― Henry Smith, The Works of Henry Smith, volume 1

“Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of her drawing up at various times of books that she meant to read regularly through - and very good lists they were - very well chosen, and very neatly arranged - sometimes alphabetically, and sometimes by some other rule. The list she drew up when only fourteen - I remember thinking it did her judgment so much credit, that I preserved it some time; and I dare say she may have made out a very good list now. But I have done with expecting any course of steady reading from Emma.
She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Why the constant rereading? Is it not obvious? Firstly, reading and rereading distract him from thinking about himself, from enumerating the reasons behind his self-imposed predicament, from dwelling on his endless plight. Secondly, he rereads to remind himself what truly good writing is, how it formidably contrasts with what he published. Perhaps he’ll finally learn something. To apply to what? To apply to nothing.”
― David Finkle, Keys to an Empty House

“I spend a lot of time reading, but I do not consider myself a big reader. On my shelves I count as many books read as unfinished.”
― Édouard Levé, Autoportrait

“You cannot sit in your room reading until the end of time. The world is scary and full of challenges. It's full of unkindness, and unfairness, and you just have to deal with it.”
― Juno Dawson, Stay Another Day

“Don’t feed the mouth, and starve the brain.
Feed them both.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“If you have friends who say they don't read, you need new friends. That is my final answer.”
― Niedria Dionne Kenny

“What will history’s verdict be about our time?"
~ Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

Yearning like a man yearns for fire on cold winter nights, I have given in to a primal need within me to possess a copy of the book 'Kairos.”
― Avijeet Das

“ناپلئون در کتاب خواندن اعجوبه بود و هنوز شنیده نشده که کسی مثل وی بتواند با سرعت کتاب بخواند و آنچه خوانده است به خاطر داشته باشد. خانم ((مونتولون)) در خاطرات خود می نویسد مقداری کتاب برای امپراتور فرستاده بودند و یکی از کتابها تاریخی بود و در بیست و دو جلد قطور. امپراتور جلد اول تاریخ مزبور را به دست گرفت و شروع به خواندن کرد و سه روز بعد هر بیست و دو جلد را خوانده بود. من برای اینکه او را آزمایش کنم و بدانم که آیا آنچه خوانده به خاطر دارد یا نه، جلدهای تاریخ را یکی پس از دیگری برداشتم و هر صفحه را که می گشودم همین که قدری از مضمون تاریخ را می گفتم ناپلئون دنباله ی آن را می گفت و گر چه نمی توانست عین عبارات کتاب را تکرار کند ولی مضمون را بر زبان می آورد.”
― Ralph Korngold, خاطراتی از یک امپراطور

“امپراتور فرانسه عادت داشت بعد از اینکه کتابی را می خواند آن را به زمین می انداخت و صبح که ((مارشال)) وارد اتاق امپراتور می شد می دید کف اتاق پوشیده از کتاب است. چون اهل فضل بود و یک دایرة المعارف جاندار به شمار می آمد متوجه موارد ضعف و نقض کتاب ها می گردید و آن موارد را در حاشیه ی کتاب می نوشت و اکنون کتاب هایی که از طرف ناپلئون تحشیه شده جزو آثار عتیق و گرانبها می باشد.”
― Ralph Korngold, خاطراتی از یک امپراطور

“گاهی امپراتور فرانسه برای سرگرمی خود و حضار یکی از نمایشنامه های کورنی راسین، مولیر، یا ولتر را برای حاضرین می خواند. گفتیم که ناپلئون رمان نمی خواند و از خواندن رمان متنفر بود. ولی در جزیره سنت هلن بعضی از شب ها یک رمان از نوع رمان های کلاسیک ((دون کیشوت)) یا ((فولاس)) یا ((مانن لسکو)) یا ((پل و ویرژینی)) به دست می گرفت و با صدای بلند برای حاضرین می خواند و گاهی توقف می کرد و از حاضرین درخواست می نمود که نظریه ی خود را راجع به مضمونی که خوانده است، بگویند و اظهار کنند که آیا پسندیده است یا در خور ایراد می باشد و علت خوبی یا بدی آن چیست؟.”
― Ralph Korngold, خاطراتی از یک امپراطور

“در دوره ی سلطنت ناپلئون در کشور فرانسه و سایر کشورهای اروپا صدها کتاب چاپ شد که روی جلد تمام آنها نوشته شده بود تقدیم به امپراتور ناپلئون و علتش این بود که می دانستند ناپلئون اهل فضل و کتاب خوان است و قدر کتاب خود را می داند”
― Ralph Korngold, خاطراتی از یک امپراطور

“تمام زندگی من در اینجا سپری شده است، در کتابخانه، وسط کتاب ها، هر چیزی که می دانم کتاب ها به من داده اند، کتاب هایی اینقدر متنوع و اینقدر زنده... در هر کدامشان قلب فنا ناپذیر خالقی می تپد؛ گیریم گاهی این قلب ابله است، گیریم گاهی حتی سیاه و بد ذات است، اما دقیقا همین ها هستند که شخصیت مرا شکل داده اند...”
― Andrei Volos, رمانی با یک طوطی

“در یک کتاب جاسوسی خوانده بودم که ماموران مخفی پیام ها را در روزنامه ها می گنجانند. روش این کار، برای مثال، انتخاب یک کلمه از پنج کلمه یا یک حرف از ده حرف بود. کافی بود رمز را بدانی تا پیام را کشف کنی. من یکی از این پیام ها را در اختیار داشتم. من امیل شولان.”
― Sorj Chalandon, Profession du père