Quotes on Great Reading

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

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

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.