| 1 |
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives |
| 2 |
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. |
| 3 |
You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child |
| 4 |
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change |
| 5 |
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness |
| 6 |
You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend |
| 7 |
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours |
| 8 |
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading |
| 9 |
Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have |
| 10 |
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all |
| 11 |
I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them |
| 12 |
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go |
| 13 |
Some books leave us free and some books make us free |
| 14 |
A good book would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit. |
| 15 |
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore |
| 16 |
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all |
| 17 |
My alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity |
| 18 |
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read |
| 19 |
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book |
| 20 |
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them |
| 21 |
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader |
| 22 |
Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand |
| 23 |
If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book |
| 24 |
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere |
| 25 |
There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all |
| 26 |
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them |
| 27 |
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say |
| 28 |
For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime |
| 29 |
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries |
| 30 |
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself |
| 31 |
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free |
| 32 |
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly |
| 33 |
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world |
| 34 |
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 |
| 35 |
Reading is important. If you know how to read, then the whole world opens up to you |
| 36 |
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know |
| 37 |
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry |
| 38 |
Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn’t worth re-reading |
| 39 |
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers |
| 40 |
There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read — unless it be reading while you eat |
| 41 |
A good book is an event in my life |
| 42 |
Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries |
| 43 |
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 |
| 44 |
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark |
| 45 |
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own |
| 46 |
Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you |
| 47 |
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 |
| 48 |
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed |
| 49 |
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all |
| 50 |
Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map |
