Quotes on Reading Good Books

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

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

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

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.

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

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.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good books. They tell too of days of striving and of strife. They are of other centuries and also of our own. They make us realize that all times are perilous, that men live in a dangerous world, in peril constantly of losing or maiming soul and body. We get some sense of perspective reading such books. Renewed courage and faith and even joy to live.