| 1 |
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say |
| 2 |
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live |
| 3 |
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home |
| 4 |
Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while |
| 5 |
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own |
| 6 |
I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once |
| 7 |
A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest |
| 8 |
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame |
| 9 |
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift |
| 10 |
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book |
| 11 |
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 |
| 12 |
For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime |
| 13 |
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all |
| 14 |
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read |
| 15 |
Children are made readers on the laps of their parents |
| 16 |
I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them |
| 17 |
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all |
| 18 |
That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet |
| 19 |
Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge |
| 20 |
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing |
| 21 |
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 |
| 22 |
′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read |
| 23 |
Books may well be the only true magic |
| 24 |
Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map |
| 25 |
Books are the mirrors of the soul |
| 26 |
Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you |
| 27 |
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries |
| 28 |
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island |
| 29 |
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well |
| 30 |
There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read — unless it be reading while you eat |
| 31 |
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life |
| 32 |
Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have |
| 33 |
Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading |
| 34 |
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 |
| 35 |
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers |
| 36 |
Sleep is good, he said, and books are better |
| 37 |
Reading brings us unknown friends |
| 38 |
You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child |
| 39 |
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world |
| 40 |
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world |
| 41 |
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark |
| 42 |
Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it |
| 43 |
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free |
| 44 |
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own |
| 45 |
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors |
| 46 |
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed |
| 47 |
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all |
| 48 |
If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book |
| 49 |
A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others |
| 50 |
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them |
