| 51 |
Reading one book is like eating one potato chip |
| 52 |
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book |
| 53 |
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life |
| 54 |
Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries |
| 55 |
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness |
| 56 |
Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn’t worth re-reading |
| 57 |
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body |
| 58 |
Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary |
| 59 |
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 |
| 60 |
A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest |
| 61 |
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 |
| 62 |
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing |
| 63 |
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change |
| 64 |
Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge |
| 65 |
For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime |
| 66 |
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. |
| 67 |
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape — I didn’t read to learn, I was reading to read |
| 68 |
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame |
| 69 |
If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book |
| 70 |
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it |
| 71 |
′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read |
| 72 |
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors |
| 73 |
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift |
| 74 |
Reading — even browsing — an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search |
| 75 |
I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once |
| 76 |
There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all |
| 77 |
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them |
| 78 |
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book |
| 79 |
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading |
| 80 |
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 |
| 81 |
The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t |
| 82 |
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say |
| 83 |
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere |
| 84 |
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 |
| 85 |
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned |
| 86 |
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own |
| 87 |
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world |
| 88 |
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home |
| 89 |
My alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity |
| 90 |
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world |
| 91 |
Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you |
| 92 |
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 |
| 93 |
A good book would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit. |
| 94 |
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one |
| 95 |
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own |
| 96 |
Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have |
| 97 |
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly |
| 98 |
There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read — unless it be reading while you eat |
| 99 |
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers |
| 100 |
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives |
