32 Quotes About Love-of-reading

I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language.

Even the most ill-formed words, set to paper, are a great blessing.

One of the ways that a writer heals an invisible wound is through book therapy.

No matter how banal the contents, there is always something that touches me. For someone now dead once thought these words significant enough to write them down.

Providence has delivered me of every worldly passion, save this one; the desire to acquire books, new or old books of any kind, whose charms I cannot persuade myself to resist.

King Arthur's Knights had been the first book Arthur had read late at night under the covers with a torch...it was he supposed, thinking back on it, the first book that had showed him what reading was really all about.

It is not true we have only one life to love, if we can read, we can live as many lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

I have sometimes dreamt ... that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards -- their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble -- the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when He sees us coming with our books under our arms, "Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading.

To be allowed, no, invited into the private lives of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwood for a cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup of tea and milk with Oliver Twist.