| 1 |
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing |
| 2 |
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home |
| 3 |
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry |
| 4 |
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world |
| 5 |
You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child |
| 6 |
There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read — unless it be reading while you eat |
| 7 |
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 |
| 8 |
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say |
| 9 |
Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand |
| 10 |
I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them |
| 11 |
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame |
| 12 |
Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks |
| 13 |
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them |
| 14 |
Some books leave us free and some books make us free |
| 15 |
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all |
| 16 |
Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn’t worth re-reading |
| 17 |
A good book is an event in my life |
| 18 |
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 |
| 19 |
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own |
| 20 |
The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t |
| 21 |
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world |
| 22 |
Reading brings us unknown friends |
| 23 |
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world |
| 24 |
Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book |
| 25 |
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in |
| 26 |
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 |
| 27 |
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness |
| 28 |
Books are a uniquely portable magic |
| 29 |
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free |
| 30 |
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you |
| 31 |
Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have |
| 32 |
Sleep is good, he said, and books are better |
| 33 |
Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries |
| 34 |
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives |
| 35 |
There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all |
| 36 |
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly |
| 37 |
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned |
| 38 |
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads |
| 39 |
Children are made readers on the laps of their parents |
| 40 |
Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge |
| 41 |
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them |
| 42 |
If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book |
| 43 |
For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime |
| 44 |
Reading one book is like eating one potato chip |
| 45 |
A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest |
| 46 |
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere |
| 47 |
Reading — even browsing — an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search |
| 48 |
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body |
| 49 |
A good book would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit. |
| 50 |
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one |
