Reading Quotes

"A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge" "The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book" "The more you read the more you will know the more you learn the more places you’ll go" "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." "One best book is equal to a hundred good friends, but one good friend is equal to a library." "Books are the mirrors of the soul." "I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time." "I cannot live without books" "In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time—none, zero" "A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking." "I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." "I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book." "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid" "Let us read and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world" "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers" "Learn to love to read" "Read what you love until you love to read" "Reading is faster than listening. Doing is faster than watching" "In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them." "Classic: a book which people praise and don't read."