Reading is better than life. Without reading, you're stuck with life.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Read in order to live.

Reading is a wrestling with ideas greater than any we can create for ourselves. It has been said, a little extravagantly, that reading can get the better of most physical sufferings, all indeed save the pangs of hunger.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

People say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place.

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.

A life without books is unlivable

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

The person who doesn’t read lives only one life. The reader lives 5,000. Reading is immortality backwards.

Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.