Quotes on Book Reading

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to become fundamental. In some ways my antiwar stand here is also a stand on anti-literacy. Someone should get G.W. into a reading program, get him to join a book club. Have him read Hamlet, King Lear.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

The covers of this book are too far apart.

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.