“On more than one occasion when reading Epifanio de los Santos, one reads Don Juan Valera.”

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”

Anne Tyler (1941) American novelist

“One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life….”

Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer

“In general, when reading a scholarly critic, one profits more from his quotations than from his comments.”

W. H. Auden book The Dyer's Hand

“It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

“A book that one has not read yet is always more exciting than a book one has memorized.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

“One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.”

Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer

“When you have mastered the numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading a book. You will be reading meanings.”

Harold Geneen (1910–1997) American businessman

“A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.”

Earl Nightingale (1921–1989) American motivational speaker

“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright