Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.
He that runs may read.
Remember, young man, experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher. By reading about the lives of great people, you can unlock the secrets to what made them great.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.
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.
Literature is my Utopia
It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.
Books were my pass to personal freedom.
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
Life does often get in the way of one's reading.
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
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