Never lend books, for no one ever returns them
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy
You cannot open a book without learning something.
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
Books were my pass to personal freedom.
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted. The last 25 years of research show that reading aloud to a child is the oldest, cheapest and must successful method of instilling that desire. Shooting baskets with a child creates a basketball player; reading to a child creates a reader.
You can't just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You have to travel to places you never thought of traveling. You have to meet every kind of person and endlessly stretch what you know.
I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.
For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written.
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.
The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter
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