(verb) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written. Example: "Have you read this book?"
"Literature is my Utopia"
"Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day."
"I cannot live without books."
"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."
"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."
"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."
"The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing."
"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others."
"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling."