To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring…

To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.

— Charles Edward Montague

“If a man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia?… I think that by retaining one’s…

— George Orwell

Read less and think more. Read about great things and think about great questions and issues.

— Wallace D. Wattles

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

— Julian Barnes

I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It…

— J. M. Coetzee

I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books,…

— William Morris

“Every child deserves to be read to. It is a great bonding time for you and your baby.”

— Anonymous

I read a great deal, avoided the comapny of the children in school who seemed superfical, and fell in love with nature.

— Frederick Lenz

When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into…

— Julian Barnes

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

— Charles Bukowski

When you read a great book at one point in your life then in another part of your life, when you read the same…

— Keith David

Every year, I have my graduate students read the great works of history, from classical times to the present. They gamely tackle Tacitus, ponder…

— H. W. Brands

“Read the great books, gentlemen,” Mr. Monte said one day. “Just the great ones. Ignore the others. There’s not enough time.”

— Pat Conroy

Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and…

— Edward Albee

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

— Anatole Broyard