Reading Quotes

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library" "Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable." "Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise." "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture Just get people to stop reading them" "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries" "Beware the man of a single book." "I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan" "Today a reader, tomorrow a leader" "So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall." "Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly they’ll go through anything You read and you’re pierced" "A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people." "Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them" "To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting" "The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think" "Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own" "From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it." "What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books" "We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading" "Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours" "Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand"