Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
My love of books was all that saved me.
It isn't what the book costs. It's what it will cost you if you don't read it.
In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn’t read all the time — none, zero.
People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.
What an astonishing thing a book is.
You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.
You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.
My alma mater was books, a good library.
A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You’ll find what you need to find. Just read.
So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.
We live for books.
We read books to find out who we are.
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.