„In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.“

„Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.“

—  Alberto Manguel writer 1948

Private Reading, p. 152.
A History of Reading (1996)

„A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.“

—  Mignon McLaughlin American journalist 1913 - 1983

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

„Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.“

—  Holbrook Jackson British journalist 1874 - 1948

„Never trust a man who reads only one book.“

—  Arturo Pérez-Reverte Spanish writer and journalist 1951

Fonte: Purity of Blood

„Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!“

—  Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

„What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.“

—  Alice James American diarist 1848 - 1892

As quoted in Alice James, Her Brothers — Her Journal (1934).

„A scholar is like a book written in a dead language — it is not every one that can read in it.“

—  William Hazlitt English writer 1778 - 1830

"Common Places," No. 13, The Literary Examiner (September - December 1823)

„Reading those books is all he does these days. I think he’s even read some of them. What kind of disturbed individual would read the same book twice, I ask you?“

—  Derek Landy Irish children's writer 1974

Fonte: Last Stand of Dead Men

„Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read-ultimately you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.“

—  Sören Kierkegaard, livro Stages on Life's Way

Stages on Life's Way, 1845 p. 363-364
1840s, Stages on Life's Way (1845)

„The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.“

—  Mortimer J. Adler American philosopher and educator 1902 - 2001

Fonte: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

„Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.“

—  Colette 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi 1873 - 1954

„College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.“

—  John Cage American avant-garde composer 1912 - 1992

Fonte: M: Writings '67-'72

„It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books…“

—  Mohsin Hamid, livro How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

Fonte: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

„That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own.“

—  Janette Rallison American writer 1966

Fonte: My Unfair Godmother

„You're never alone when you're reading a book.“

—  Susan Wiggs American writer 1958

„One receives the impression from his writings that he made it his plan to read any book whatever that no one else can bear to read.“

—  Robertson Davies, livro A Voice from the Attic

A Voice from the Attic (1960)

„Never read any book that is not a year old.“

—  Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882

In Praise of Books
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

„I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.“

—  Marlon Brando American screen and stage actor 1924 - 2004

Fonte: Songs My Mother Taught Me

„If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.“

—  Sherman Alexie Native American author and filmmaker 1966