Quotes on Reading Books

Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also need access to books that entice them, attract them to reading. Schools...can make it easy and unrisky for children to take books home for the evening or weekend by worrying less about losing books to children and more about losing children to illiteracy.

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

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; every man that tries it finds it so. But a great book that comes from a great thinker, — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth, with beauty too.

I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.

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.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

A man only learns by two things; one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

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

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

The man who never reads lives only one.

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.

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.