Books Quote by Daniel Menaker

“his education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw.”

— C.S. Lewis

“The child understood vaguely that in taking up literature, he had entered a domain where he could rely on nothing beyond himself. ”

— Anonymous

“As far as I can tell, a young adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read.”

— Stephen Colbert

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“They like to read; for them there’s nothing more exciting than ideas. And some of this has to do with how they spent their…

— Susan Cain

“He was the smartest and best-read person any of us had every known, but he wore his learning so lightly and had such curiosity…

— Will Schwalbe

“I didn't normally talk this way: but sometimes you have to pretend to be an innocent child to learn something about the complicated world…

— Brock Clarke

“When we were growing up, he was very critical. I was told things on a daily basis, like I was dumb and lazy.”

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“Whatever the reasons, reading somehow awakens something in a kid's life that makes them take their own life more seriously and other people's lives…

— Dana Gioia

“He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his…

— John Green

“Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.”

— Y.S. Lee

“He liked doing research in the library. He liked feeling of accumulating knowledge in his brain. It was something he had enjoyed ever since…

— Haruki Murakami