We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can’t in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
When I graduated from high school I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.
In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.
Don’t write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won’t write anything worth reading.
To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root – first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head that reading can give him, and you hook him into science fiction, then you’ve got the future secured.
Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.
Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.
Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.
So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.
I shall remain on Mars and read a book.
Everything in this book may be wrong. – The Savior’s Manual.
Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.
Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word of God are all useless if we fail to put what we learn into practice.
If you always feel comfortable reading God’s Word, you’re either not reading ALL of it, or you aren’t letting it sink in.
God has a purpose behind every problem. He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like Jesus than he depends on our reading the Bible.
I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.
All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.