“Most people worth knowing enjoy reading.”

“A reading-machine, always wound up and going,
He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.”

James Russell Lowell A Fable for Critics

“A book worth reading is worth owning.”

John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic

“No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.”

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950) American writer

“Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

“I just read and read and read. … I have always enjoyed reading.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.”

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …

“A story with no moral isn't worth writing; a story with no plot isn't worth reading. And if people get your point before they get your story, you are to hire a soapbox instead.”

Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930–1999) Novelist, editor

“It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.”

John Wesley (1703–1791) Christian theologian

“Our country is supposed to be of the people, by the people and for the people, and if that's not worth fighting for I don't know what is.”

Doris Haddock (1910–2010) American political activist