In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity. — Clive Thompson Copy Share Image
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
When you read with your child, you show them that reading is important, but you also show them they're important - that… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books. — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“This book is a treasure; I did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I… — Laura Nowlin Copy Share Image
I realized that my book readings were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas,… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
You can't start a new chapter of the book if you keep re-reading the last one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. — Confucius Copy Share Image
He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Have you never picked up a book you've read before, and found it speaks to you in a new way?” — Django Wexler Copy Share Image
Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
