Reading Quotes

"Beware the man of a single book." "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries" "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture Just get people to stop reading them" "Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise." "Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable." "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library" "Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him" "The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read." "The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy" "Do not read as children do to amuse yourself or like the ambitious for the purpose of instruction No read in order to live" "The best books... are those that tell you what you know already." "A book should be a ball of light in one's hand." "There is no friend as loyal as a book" "A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors" "Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read" "You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me" "To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark" "A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one." "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." "As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."