Quotes on Book Reading

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk - a free fall, a loose splash, a spill.

No two persons ever read the same book.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Where books are burned in the end people will be burned too.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.