Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive -- my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

Reading equals hope times change.

Reading fast gives you two things that should never mix: surface knowledge and overconfidence.

Reading feeds writing: it presents you with new ideas to engage with.

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.

Reading fiction, I see through the prism of another person's understanding; reading everything else, I am travelling -- I am travelling in the way that I still can: new sights, new experiences. I am reminded sometimes of the intensity of childhood reading, that absolute absorption when the very ability to read was a heady new gain, the gateway to a different place, to a parallel universe you hadn't known was there. The one entirely benign mind-altering drug.

Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.

Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr, and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.

Reading for school is overrated. Reading for pleasure is underrated.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.

Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are.

Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.

Reading had never let me down before. It had always been the one sure thing.

Reading has always been a major part of my life. It has broadened my world and taken me to places I would otherwise have never seen. Now that I am a hundred years old (this September) it still takes me to the outside world I can no longer visit.

Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday. If being a parent consists often of passing along chunks of ourselves to unwitting-often unwilling-recipients, then books are, for me, one of the simplest and most sure-fire ways of doing that.

Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. Book love, Trollope called it. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live. Yet of all the many things in which we recognize some universal comfort...reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung.