500 Quotes by Reading

Reading can take you places you have never been before.

This week I’ve been reading a lot and doing little work. That’s the way things ought to be. That’s surely the road to success.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one’s ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

A man is known by the books he reads.

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!