Joy Of Reading Quotes

I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.

I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.

As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the... story can provide some guide for a fluent reading.

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

The joy of reading can take you so many different places. In addition to intelligence and stretching your mind, I just think reading is so crucial in terms of being a well-rounded person.

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

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.

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.

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

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

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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

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

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...

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

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

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

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

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Love of books is the best of all.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

I believe that a good children's book should appeal to all people who have not completely lost their original joy and wonder in life. The fact is that I don't make books for children at all. I make them for that part of us, of myself and of my friends, which has never changed, which is still a child.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.