O for a Book and a shdie nook, either indoor or out; With the green leaves whisp'ring overhed, or the Street cryes all about. Where I mai Read all at my ease, both of the New and Old; For a jollie good Book whereon to look is better to me than Gold. John Wilson

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.David Viscott

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. Ralph Waldo Emerson 

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.Manuel Puig

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.Beverly Cleary

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.Franklin P. Jones

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.Christine Keeler

Outside of a dog a book is man's best.  Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.   Groucho Marx