Book Reading Quotes

The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.

Everything in this book may be wrong. - The Savior's Manual

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Reading will give you lasting pleasure.

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

What is reading but silent conversation?

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday. If being a parent consists often of passing along chunks of ourselves to unwitting-often unwilling-recipients, then books are, for me, one of the simplest and most sure-fire ways of doing that.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.

The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.

It's not an accident that successful people read more books.

When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.