Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
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.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
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.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.
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.
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
A lot of religious texts make for good reading. That's why they hold up.
Only for today, I will devote ten minutes of my time to some good reading, remembering that just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul
An acquaintanceship with the literature of the world may be won by any person who will devote half an hour a day to the careful reading of the best books. The habit of reading good books is one that gives great comfort in all the stages and among all the vicissitudes of life. The man who has learned to love good reading is never alone. His friends are the great ones of human history, and to them he may always go for stimulating and helpful communion. -GQ 71
As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice. Good reading becomes possible when you need not conciously think about eyes, or light, or print, or spelling. The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God.
Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading
Good reading makes for damn hard writing.
The Spirit of Cities presents a new approach to the study of cities in which the focus is placed on a city's defining ethos or values. The style of the book is attractively conversational and even autobiographical, and far from current social science positivism. For a lover of cities--and perhaps even for one who is not--The Spirit of Cities is consistently good reading.
A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels.
I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.
... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.
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