| 51 |
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift |
| 52 |
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go |
| 53 |
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads |
| 54 |
A room without books is like a body without a soul |
| 55 |
If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book |
| 56 |
Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge |
| 57 |
Reading one book is like eating one potato chip |
| 58 |
Some books leave us free and some books make us free |
| 59 |
There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read — unless it be reading while you eat |
| 60 |
A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others |
| 61 |
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book |
| 62 |
I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once |
| 63 |
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them |
| 64 |
Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand |
| 65 |
Reading — even browsing — an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search |
| 66 |
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 |
| 67 |
The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t |
| 68 |
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame |
| 69 |
′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read |
| 70 |
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all |
| 71 |
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me |
| 72 |
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 |
| 73 |
Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book |
| 74 |
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 |
| 75 |
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness |
| 76 |
A good book would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit. |
| 77 |
Books are a uniquely portable magic |
| 78 |
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives |
| 79 |
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries |
| 80 |
For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime |
| 81 |
Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you |
| 82 |
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world |
| 83 |
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader |
| 84 |
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark |
| 85 |
My alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity |
| 86 |
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers |
| 87 |
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change |
| 88 |
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 |
| 89 |
Books may well be the only true magic |
| 90 |
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry |
| 91 |
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world |
| 92 |
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it |
| 93 |
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours |
| 94 |
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own |
| 95 |
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you |
| 96 |
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore |
| 97 |
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in |
| 98 |
Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have |
| 99 |
I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them |
| 100 |
You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child |
