Quotes on Good Reading

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

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

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

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

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.

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

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