Easy reading is damn hard writing. Nathaniel Hawthorne 

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. John Locke 

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

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. Benjamin Franklin 

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.     George M. Adams

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing. Mike Tyson 

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book!  A message to us from the dead, - from human souls whom we never saw, who lived perhaps thousands of miles away; and yet these, on those little sheets of paper, speak to us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.  Charles Kingsley

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.     Charles Kingsley