| 1 |
If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book |
| 2 |
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own |
| 3 |
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one |
| 4 |
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing |
| 5 |
Books are the mirrors of the soul |
| 6 |
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame |
| 7 |
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors |
| 8 |
A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest |
| 9 |
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them |
| 10 |
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 |
| 11 |
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting |
| 12 |
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know |
| 13 |
There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all |
| 14 |
Reading — even browsing — an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search |
| 15 |
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me |
| 16 |
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives |
| 17 |
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all |
| 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 |
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 |
| 20 |
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers |
| 21 |
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world |
| 22 |
There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read — unless it be reading while you eat |
| 23 |
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life |
| 24 |
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body |
| 25 |
Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand |
| 26 |
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change |
| 27 |
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads |
| 28 |
Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you |
| 29 |
Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book |
| 30 |
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 |
| 31 |
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere |
| 32 |
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 |
| 33 |
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. |
| 34 |
Sleep is good, he said, and books are better |
| 35 |
Children are made readers on the laps of their parents |
| 36 |
Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge |
| 37 |
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you |
| 38 |
For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime |
| 39 |
I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them |
| 40 |
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well |
| 41 |
I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once |
| 42 |
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness |
| 43 |
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark |
| 44 |
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading |
| 45 |
Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading |
| 46 |
′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read |
| 47 |
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in |
| 48 |
Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while |
| 49 |
Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map |
| 50 |
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all |
