Quotes on Reading Books

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

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

Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.

No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted. The last 25 years of research show that reading aloud to a child is the oldest, cheapest and must successful method of instilling that desire. Shooting baskets with a child creates a basketball player; reading to a child creates a reader.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

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.

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

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.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Hard writing makes easy reading.

I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in First." I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".

Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy