QUOTATIONS ABOUT READING

So many books, so little time. ~ Frank Zappa

A library is a hospital for the mind. ~ Anonymous

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are. ~ Mason Cooley

If you can read this, thank a teacher. ~ Anonymous Teacher

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ~ Joseph Addison

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ~ Jorge Luis Borges

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. ~ Lord Henry P. Brougham

When I got my library card, that was when my life began. ~ Rita Mae Brown

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ~ Joseph Brodsky

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books. 
~ Gary Paulsen

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. ~ Emilie Buchwald

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~ Chinese proverb

A room without books is like a body without a soul. ~ Marcus T. Cicero

I often feel sorry for people who don’t read good books;
they are missing a chance to lead an extra life. ~ Scott Corbett

I can read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First I read the beginning, and then I read the ending,
and then I start in the middle and read toward whichever end I like best. ~ Gracie Allen

Never judge a book by its movie. ~ J. W. Eagan

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books
which are your very own. ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible
and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ~ Charles W. Eliot

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says,
but to go off with him and travel in his company. ~ André Gide

Our high respect for a well-read person is praise enough for literature. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not true that we have only one life to lead; if we can read, we can live as many more lives
and as many kinds of lives as we wish. ~ S. I. Hayakawa

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles,
it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience
of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~ Elizabeth Hardwick

When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes. ~ Desiderius Erasmus

Take a good book to bed with you — Books do not snore. ~  Thea Dorn

Wear the old coat and buy the new book. ~ Austin Phelps

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people
who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. ~ Anna Quindlen

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend;
and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. ~ Sir James Goldsmith

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. ~ Jorge Luis Borges

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. ~ Mortimer J. Adler

These are not books … but minds alive on the shelves. ~ Gilbert Highet

Read in order to live. ~ Gustave Flaubert

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it. ~ Samuel Johnson

Read, read, read. ~ William Faulkner

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register
without consciousness. ~ Anthony Marcel

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful,
ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash
of poetry. ~ Gaston Bachelard

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a counselor,
a multitude of counselors. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. ~ Paul Sweeney

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and
once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light,
at noon and by moonlight. ~ Robertson Davies

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,
and a few to be chewed and digested:
some books are to be read only in parts,
others to be read, but not curiously, and a few to be read wholly,
and with diligence and attention. ~ Francis Bacon

There is creative reading as well as creative writing. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The way a book is read–the qualities a reader brings to a book–can have
as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it. ~ Norman Cousins

Surviving and thriving as a professional today demands two new approaches
to the written word. First, it requires a new approach to orchestrating
information, by skillfully choosing what to read and what to ignore. Second,
it requires a new approach to integrating information, by reading faster
and with greater comprehension. ~ Jimmy Calano