Reading—even browsing—an old book can yield sustenance denied by a

database search. —James Gleick

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader,
reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. —Ursula K. Le Guin

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. —Joseph Addison

(Joseph Addison Reading Quote Print from IDefineMeProject)

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe

we’re someone else, disrupting the delusion that we’re permanent and at the
center of the universe. Suddenly (we’re saved!) other people are real again, and
we’re fond of them. —George Saunders