One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
A home without books is a body without soul.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
A house without books is like a room without windows.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
The more you read, the more things you will know.
I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.
You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
Shakespeare is one of the reasons I've stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words... I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
Love of books is the best of all.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.
I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer questions, and explain what you understood.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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