Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don’t you agree?
Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.
I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.
My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don’t read is often as important as what you do read.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.