(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 am too fond of reading books to care to write them."
"Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside."
"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."
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."
"The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing."
"Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man."
"I read poetry to save time."
"Women are books, and men the readers be."
"Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself."
"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."