Quotes on Joy Of Reading

Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

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.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

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

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

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. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

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.

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...

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

I believe that a good children's book should appeal to all people who have not completely lost their original joy and wonder in life. The fact is that I don't make books for children at all. I make them for that part of us, of myself and of my friends, which has never changed, which is still a child.

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.

A home without books is a body without soul.