“ Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. ”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
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What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though. 
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. 
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. 
Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time. 
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. 