We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy
That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.
What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.
There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.
The joy of reading can take you so many different places. In addition to intelligence and stretching your mind, I just think reading is so crucial in terms of being a well-rounded person.
Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.
I believe that a good children's book should appeal to all people who have not completely lost their original joy and wonder in life. The fact is that I don't make books for children at all. I make them for that part of us, of myself and of my friends, which has never changed, which is still a child.
As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the... story can provide some guide for a fluent reading.
I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
The joy of reading with our children doesn't stop as they, and we, get older; it simply changes.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
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