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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.

I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something.

When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.

An essential part of any successful action on the part of the United States is an understanding on the part of the people of America of the character of the problem and the remedies to be applied. ... It is virtually impossible at this distance merely by reading, or listening, or even seeing photographs or motion pictures, to grasp at all the real significance of the situation. And yet the whole world of the future hangs on a proper judgment.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

If you want to work on the core problem, it's early school literacy.

Words are the voice of the heart.

What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.

What can I say? Librarians rule.

More people should use their library.

A library should be like a pair of open arms.