“Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.”

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”

Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer

“Every word of Truth proceeds from God, whether that Truth be written in the rocks and read by the geologist or written in the heavens and read by the astronomer or written in the heart of man or written in this old book”

Benjamin Fish Austin (1850–1933) Nineteenth-century Canadian educator/Methodist Minister/Spiritualist

“Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read-ultimately you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.”

Sören Kierkegaard book Stages on Life's Way

“I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.”

Barbara Kingsolver (1955) American author, poet and essayist

“A scholar is like a book written in a dead language — it is not every one that can read in it.”

William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer

“Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.”

Jean Fritz (1915–2017) American children's writer

“He had given such heed to what was read that none of the things that were written fell from him to the ground, but he remembered all, and afterwards his memory served him for books.”

Athanasius of Alexandria (295–373) Patriarch of Alexandria

“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”

Hal Abelson (1947) computer scientist

“The best books are those, which those who read them believe they themselves could have written.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher