| 51 |
Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge |
| 52 |
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 |
| 53 |
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives |
| 54 |
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you |
| 55 |
Reading is important. If you know how to read, then the whole world opens up to you |
| 56 |
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 |
| 57 |
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world |
| 58 |
Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary |
| 59 |
Reading brings us unknown friends |
| 60 |
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader |
| 61 |
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 |
| 62 |
A good book would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit. |
| 63 |
My alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity |
| 64 |
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it |
| 65 |
Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand |
| 66 |
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness |
| 67 |
If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book |
| 68 |
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading |
| 69 |
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home |
| 70 |
A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others |
| 71 |
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book |
| 72 |
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 |
| 73 |
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island |
| 74 |
Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you |
| 75 |
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say |
| 76 |
For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime |
| 77 |
There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all |
| 78 |
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors |
| 79 |
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go |
| 80 |
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them |
| 81 |
Reading — even browsing — an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search |
| 82 |
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading |
| 83 |
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries |
| 84 |
Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks |
| 85 |
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read |
| 86 |
Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have |
| 87 |
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them |
| 88 |
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall |
| 89 |
Reading is an act of civilization; it’s one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities |
| 90 |
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore |
| 91 |
Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book |
| 92 |
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in |
| 93 |
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere |
| 94 |
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all |
| 95 |
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 |
| 96 |
There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read — unless it be reading while you eat |
| 97 |
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift |
| 98 |
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live |
| 99 |
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark |
| 100 |
Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn’t worth re-reading |
