| 1 |
Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading |
| 2 |
Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map |
| 3 |
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 |
| 4 |
For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime |
| 5 |
A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest |
| 6 |
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island |
| 7 |
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know |
| 8 |
A good book would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit. |
| 9 |
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go |
| 10 |
Reading brings us unknown friends |
| 11 |
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well |
| 12 |
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it |
| 13 |
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home |
| 14 |
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world |
| 15 |
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book |
| 16 |
I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them |
| 17 |
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry |
| 18 |
Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you |
| 19 |
Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while |
| 20 |
Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge |
| 21 |
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives |
| 22 |
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours |
| 23 |
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one |
| 24 |
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned |
| 25 |
Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book |
| 26 |
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them |
| 27 |
A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others |
| 28 |
Books are a uniquely portable magic |
| 29 |
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change |
| 30 |
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 |
| 31 |
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live |
| 32 |
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own |
| 33 |
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say |
| 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 |
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world |
| 36 |
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness |
| 37 |
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all |
| 38 |
That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet |
| 39 |
There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all |
| 40 |
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in |
| 41 |
The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t |
| 42 |
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries |
| 43 |
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading |
| 44 |
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark |
| 45 |
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them |
| 46 |
If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book |
| 47 |
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you |
| 48 |
Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand |
| 49 |
Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks |
| 50 |
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 |
