Explore Quotes on Reading

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.

I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

What is reading but silent conversation?

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies to speak; they just do. But reading is different.

As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the... story can provide some guide for a fluent reading.