61 Quotes About Book-reading

Reading books doesn't make you smarter. Reading smart books makes you smarter. Reading dumb books makes you dumber.

When you fail, embrace it. Bleed. Get hurt. Lose your religion. That's the only way you will do amazing things.

People spend so much time on the personal development books that they can't find time for personal development!

Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.

Reading literature and engaging in writing breaks through the mental rigidity that experience and repetition breeds.

Books couldn't judge you or hurt you. They didn't make me feel small and insignificant. I know it's weird, but I always felt really close to the characters in books, like they were my true circle of friends, inviting me into their world.

Books aren't interested in who is reading them... A book will welcome any reader; any age, any background, any point of view. Books don't care if you can't understand every word in them, or if you want to skip bits or reread bits. Books welcome everyone who wants to explore them, and thankfully no one has ever worked out a way to stop that.

The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory.

Authors do not need to offer us the answers to such weighty questions such as how to live and prepare us to accept death. The aim of a writer’s is to frame worldly questions that allow all readers too independently and jointly explore life-altering questions in a way that satisfies the fabric of thought corresponding to our respective times.