Reading Quotes

“A book that is not worth speaking of is not worth reading.”

“There is no such thing as an innocent reading, we must say what reading we are guilty of.”

“Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or a duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.”

“I think the greatest compliment is when a reader tells me, 'I couldn't put your book down.'”

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry.”

“Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; let no single author be your master.”

“Moral: It is a good thing to be a slave to the reading habit.”

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”

“We read lives to read our own.”

“He who loves not books before he comes to thirty years of age will hardly love them enough afterward to understand them.”

“The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it's you I'm addressing, who else, from inside this monstrous fiction.”

“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”

“The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading.”

“My idea of a great night is just to be in my own bed, with a good book.”

“The best reading for the largest number at the least cost.”

“Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.”

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”

“The possibility of reading can never be taken for granted.”

“Empathy is the main quality of a good reader.”

“The job of a good book is to put you in touch with the best talkers on the subject.”