Book Readers Quotes - Page 2

• The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wisdom, Book, Reading

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• The more you read, the more things you will know.

  Dr. Seuss

  Educational, Reading, Places To Go

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• There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

  Mary Ellen Chase

  Children, Book, Reading

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• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

  Matthew Kelly

  Prayer, Book, Reading

  Matthew Kelly (2003). “Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star”, p.243, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• Love of books is the best of all.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Reading, Book, Literacy

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• A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

  George R. R. Martin

  Reading, Ice, Fantasy

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.521, Bantam

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• Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Book, Reading

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.148

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• Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Happiness, Education

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Aug 30, 2015

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• That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Funny, Book, Reading

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• There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Art, Reading, Writing

  'The Literary Character' (1795) ch. 11

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• It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

  Katherine Paterson

  Children, Reading, Giving

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• When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

  John Berger

  Wall, Book, Reading

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.15, Vintage

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• Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.155

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• Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Workout, Book, New Relationship

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• 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.

  Katherine Paterson

  Happiness, Children, Attitude

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• I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

  William Lyon Phelps (1935). “... Yearbook”

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• Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

  Marcel Proust

  Book, Reading, Kind

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• Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Children, Book

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• A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• People are going to die who don't die in the books, so even the book readers will be unhappy. So everybody better be on their toes. David and D.B. (David Benioff and D.B. Weiss co-creators of 'Game Of Thrones') are even bloodier than I am.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Games, People

  "EXCLUSIVE 'Game of Thrones' Author George R.R. Martin Warns: 'People are going to die who don’t die in the books'". George R. R. Martin's speech at the 67th Writers Guild West Awards, www.showbiz411.com. February 14, 2015.

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• At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.

  Avi Arad

  Book, Aviation, Comic

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• I was not a big comic-book reader.

  Brad Bird

  Book, Comic, Bigs

  "We Shine the Spotlight on ARROW Star Grant Gustin". Interview with Tiffany Vogt, www.thetvaddict.com. January 15, 2014.

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• I read the 'Deadpool' series back in the '90s. I'm not, like, a huge comic book reader, per say, though. I'll check out 'Archie' when I'm in the grocery line, but that's about it.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Book, Lines, Comic

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• I wasn't a big comic book reader. I always had trouble knowing which box to read next. I was always reading from the wrong box. I was like, this is a comic book that doesn't make any sense! I think I was reading them all out of sequence.

  Tim Burton

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Source: www.chud.com

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