“The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.”

“The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.”

Matthew Henry (1662–1714) Theologician from Wales

“Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”

R.L. Stine (1943) American writer and producer

“You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

“I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.”

Edmund Wilson (1895–1972) American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters

“The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.”

Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938) American writer

“The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading the old ones.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.”

John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820–1894) British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician

“Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.”

Colette (1873–1954) 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi