Book Readers Quotes:

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

- Jackie Kennedy

topic: Children, Powerful, Reading, Favorite Book, Joy Of Reading

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

- W. H. Auden

topic: Real, Book, Real Books, Book Readers, Writing A Book

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Education, Book, Reading, Book Reading, Libraries And Reading

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

- Edwin Percy Whipple

source: Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Literature and Life”, p.38

topic: Book, Sea, Lighthouse, Joy Of Reading, Inspiring Book

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

- Mortimer Adler

source: "How To Read A Book". Book by Mortimer J. Adler, 1940.

topic: Inspirational, Good Life, Reading, Speed Reading, Book Reading

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

- Joseph Addison

topic: Inspirational, Education, Reading, Joy Of Reading, Speed Reading

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Book, Reading, Writing, Inspirational Reading, Inspiring Reading

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Book, Reading, Healing, Learning To Read, Joy Of Reading

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

- Walt Disney

topic: Inspirational, Life, Book, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Reading

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Education, Wisdom, Book, Inspiring Book, Inspiring Reading

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

- Mary Wortley Montagu

source: Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.554, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

topic: Book, Reading, Library, Joy Of Reading, Diversion

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

- Angela Carter

topic: Book, Reading, Writing, Inspiring Reading, Book Reading

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Happiness, Attitude, Reading, Joy Of Reading, Speed Reading

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Inspirational Reading, Reading Inspirational

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

- John Berger

source: John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.15, Vintage

topic: Wall, Reading, Book, Reading Stories, Four Walls

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

- Franz Kafka

topic: Book, Sea, Library, Book Readers

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

- James Russell Lowell

source: 1849 'Nationality in Literature', in the North American Review, Jul.

topic: Book, Reading, Mind, Joy Of Reading, Book Reading

What is reading but silent conversation?

- Walter Savage Landor

source: Walter Savage Landor (1826). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.497

topic: Reading, Silent, Conversation, Book Reading, Book Readers

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

- John Adams

source: Letter to Abigail Adams, www.masshist.org. December 28, 1794.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Book Readers

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Book, Reading, Writing, Joy Of Reading, Reading And Writing

Reading will give you lasting pleasure.

- Laura Bush

topic: Reading, Giving, Pleasure, Book Readers

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

- Austin Phelps

source: Austin Phelps (1882). “The Theory of Preaching: Lectures on Homiletics”

topic: Book, Reading, Coats, Speed Reading, Old Books

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

- Clarence Day

topic: Art, Reading, Writing, Joy Of Reading, Art Of Writing

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies..

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Fantasy, Reader, Thousand, Inspirational Reading, Favourite Book

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

- Edmund Burke

topic: Reading, Carpe Diem, Literacy, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Reading

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

topic: Wisdom, Book, Reading, Inspiring Reading, Book Reading

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Library Cards, Happy Children

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

- Mary Ellen Chase

topic: Children, Book, Reading, Book Reading, Libraries And Reading

The more you read, the more things you will know.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Library Cards, Learning To Read, Joy Of Learning, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Children

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

- Matthew Kelly

topic: Prayer, Reading, Exercise, Joy Of Reading, Speed Reading

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Reading, Space, Empty, Diversion, Empty Space

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.

- Katherine Paterson

topic: Happiness, Attitude, Children, Literacy And Children, Literacy For Children

There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

- Isaac D'Israeli

topic: Art, Reading, Writing, Art Of Writing, Book Readers

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Funny, Book, Reading, Inspiring Reading, Books And Reading

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Workout, Book, New Relationship, Inspirational Reading, Inspiring Book

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

- Salman Rushdie

topic: Book, Writing, Beer, Inspiring Book, Books And Reading

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

- William Lyon Phelps

source: William Lyon Phelps (1935). “... Yearbook”

topic: Happiness, Attitude, Book, Inspiring Reading, Book Reading

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Children, Book, Inspirational Reading, Book Reading

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

- Henry Ward Beecher

source: Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.155

topic: Happiness, Attitude, Book, Book Reading, Libraries And Reading

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Education, Inspirational Children, Inspirational Reading

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

- Marcel Proust

topic: Book, Reading, Kind, Book Readers

People are going to die who don't die in the books, so even the book readers will be unhappy. So everybody better be on their toes. David and D.B. (David Benioff and D.B. Weiss co-creators of 'Game Of Thrones) are even bloodier than I am.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Book, Games, People, Book Readers

I wasn't a big comic book reader. I always had trouble knowing which box to read next. I was always reading from the wrong box. I was like, this is a comic book that doesn't make any sense! I think I was reading them all out of sequence.

- Tim Burton

source: Source: www.chud.com

topic: Book, Reading, Thinking, Book Readers

It's important to realize that the series actually grows with the reader. "March: Book One" is a great introduction for kids as young as eight or nine years old. But then they grow with the reader. Book Two is bigger, Book Three is even bigger. And they grow more violent and more confrontational.

- Andrew Aydin

topic: Book, Kids, Eight, Book Readers

One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. I was like what do you mean he's not real. And she thought I was crying because it’s like Santa Claus is not real and I was crying because there was no one coming with enough power to save us.

- Geoffrey Canada

source: "Waiting for 'Superman'". www.imdb.com. January 22, 2010.

topic: Mom, Mother, Real, Fourth Grade, Fifth Grade

At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.

- Avi Arad

topic: Book, Aviation, Comic, Daredevil, Book Readers