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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.

Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

If those of us who care about making our own decisions about what to read and what to think don't take a stand, others will decide for us.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.