Quotes on Book Reading

Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called Life on a Little Known Planet. It's about insects. It will make you feel better.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.

Research shows us that children who are read to from a very early age are more likely to begin reading themselves at an early age. They're more likely to excell in school. They're more likely to graduate secondary school and go to college.

Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday. If being a parent consists often of passing along chunks of ourselves to unwitting-often unwilling-recipients, then books are, for me, one of the simplest and most sure-fire ways of doing that.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; every man that tries it finds it so. But a great book that comes from a great thinker, — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth, with beauty too.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

The man who never reads lives only one.

He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.

Never read any book that is not a year old.

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.