All readers have reading in common.

The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely.

— Amitava Kumar

All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine.…

— Alberto Manguel

Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment… The world, you must remember, is…

— Aldous Huxley

“Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were scarce and…

— Aldous Huxley

I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at…

— Deborah Harkness

“I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books. There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers – there always were. Reading…

— Julian Barnes

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

— Jeff Bezos

“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

— Kevin Ansbro

Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading.

— Donalyn Miller

But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

— Betsy Lerner

“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

— Christopher K. Krebs

There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about not being…

— Maryanne Wolf

Reading counts as partying, even if you're not enjoying it! Even if someone's forcing you to read, you can find a way to make…

— Andrew W.K

“What you’re holding in your hands is a BookShots Flames story. It’s part of a revolution in reading. Hand-picked by James Patterson, BookShots Flames…

— Beth Ciotta

“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by…

— Marilynne Robinson