“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami,
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles William Eliot
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison
No two persons ever read the same book.
–Edmund Wilson
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
–Woodrow Wilson
In a good book the best is between the lines.
–Swedish Proverb
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
–Joseph Brodsky
“For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.”
― Louis L'Amour
“Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.”
― Paxton Hood
“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.”
― Henry Miller