| 1 | Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know |
| 2 | Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift |
| 3 | The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read |
| 4 | If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book |
| 5 | Reading is an act of civilization; it’s one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities |
| 6 | Today a reader, tomorrow a leader |
| 7 | It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own |
| 8 | People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading |
| 9 | There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them |
| 10 | The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame |
| 11 | A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one |
| 12 | A good book is an event in my life |
| 13 | Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all |
| 14 | Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body |
| 15 | Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing |
| 16 | A good book would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit. |
| 17 | Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book |
| 18 | I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once |
| 19 | A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say |
| 20 | Books may well be the only true magic |
| 21 | Children are made readers on the laps of their parents |
| 22 | If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all |
| 23 | The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it |
| 24 | Reading one book is like eating one potato chip |
| 25 | Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you |
| 26 | You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore |
| 27 | Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself |
| 28 | Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks |
| 29 | Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading |
| 30 | Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness |
| 31 | I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in |
| 32 | Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well |
| 33 | Reading brings us unknown friends |
| 34 | Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere |
| 35 | A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading |
| 36 | Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all |
| 37 | Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours |
| 38 | 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 |
| 39 | Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them |
| 40 | For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime |
| 41 | That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet |
| 42 | Reading is important. If you know how to read, then the whole world opens up to you |
| 43 | Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map |
| 44 | I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them |
| 45 | The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story |
| 46 | Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life |
| 47 | You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child |
| 48 | Reading — even browsing — an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search |
| 49 | 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 |
| 50 | The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries |
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The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go
Once upon a time, in a small village named Rosewind, lived a young boy named Nathan. Nathan was an ordinary boy with an extraordinary love for books. He was
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