Quotes on Importance Of Reading

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.

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.

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.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you a constantly growing knowledge of what has been done and what hasn't, what is trite and what is fresh, what works and what lies there dying (or dead) on the page. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.