(verb) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written. Example: "Have you read this book?"
"The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be."
"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."
"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."
"People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers."
"A half-read book is a half-finished love affair."
"Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man."
"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."
"Be with someone who can read your silence."
"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."