Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.
When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
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.
You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.
Read, read, read. Read everything.
There’s no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.
Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.
Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.
If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.
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.