| 1 |
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one |
| 2 |
Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading |
| 3 |
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back |
| 4 |
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free |
| 5 |
Sleep is good, he said, and books are better |
| 6 |
Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have |
| 7 |
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape — I didn’t read to learn, I was reading to read |
| 8 |
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift |
| 9 |
Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge |
| 10 |
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading |
| 11 |
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 |
| 12 |
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading |
| 13 |
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life |
| 14 |
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you |
| 15 |
Reading one book is like eating one potato chip |
| 16 |
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting |
| 17 |
Books are the mirrors of the soul |
| 18 |
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself |
| 19 |
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read |
| 20 |
A good book would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit. |
| 21 |
A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest |
| 22 |
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world |
| 23 |
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame |
| 24 |
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book |
| 25 |
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing |
| 26 |
′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read |
| 27 |
A good book is an event in my life |
| 28 |
Children are made readers on the laps of their parents |
| 29 |
Books are a uniquely portable magic |
| 30 |
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it |
| 31 |
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader |
| 32 |
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly |
| 33 |
Reading — even browsing — an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search |
| 34 |
I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them |
| 35 |
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry |
| 36 |
The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t |
| 37 |
Reading brings us unknown friends |
| 38 |
There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read — unless it be reading while you eat |
| 39 |
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go |
| 40 |
Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand |
| 41 |
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed |
| 42 |
My alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity |
| 43 |
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home |
| 44 |
There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all |
| 45 |
Books may well be the only true magic |
| 46 |
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. |
| 47 |
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all |
| 48 |
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall |
| 49 |
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know |
| 50 |
For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime |
