Reading is a truly wonderful invention. What do great writers of history have to say about it? Let’s find out.
I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
Wisława Szymborska
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Joseph Brodsky
Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people – people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
E.B. White
And let us not forget these eternal words of wisdom from the novel Don Quixote:
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
A love of reading is the best sort of crazy (but do try to get plenty of sleep).
Jake W. Powell 