Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.
Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you.
Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible.
I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole new world in books. If you can’t afford to travel, you travel mentally through reading. You can see anything and go any place you want to in reading.
Books showed me there were possibilities in life, that there were actually people like me living in a world I could not only aspire to but attain. Reading gave me hope. For me, it was the open door.
I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Read, read, read. Read everything.
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
A word after a word after a word is power.
If you’re not reading – with your heart as well as your brain – you will be one stupid grown up. Even worse, you’ll be missing out on one of the best experiences you can possibly have. Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.
Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.
Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.
Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.
Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.