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Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.

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.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

If I couldn't use food or love to define contentment, I would use reading.

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening books or facts or realizations that put a book in another light and make it different and richer the second or the third time.