How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child.

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

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

I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you.

Reading for me, is spending time with a friend.

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.

For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime.

Books break the shackles of time – proof that humans can work magic.

I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.