Quotes on Reading Books

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

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.

No two persons ever read the same book.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

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

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.

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 best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.