No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
-- Mary Wortley Montague

Read in order to live.
-- Gustave Flaubert

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
-- P. J. O'Rourke

People say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
-- Logan Pearsell Smith

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book ahould be a ball of light in one's hand.
-- Ezra Pound

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
-- Edith Sitwell

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
-- Charles de Secondant

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