Inspiring Reading Quotes

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

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.

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

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

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

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

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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 the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Love of books is the best of all.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

A great book should leave you with many experiences.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

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

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

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.