554 Quotes About Reading-books

Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.

Books have immortalized great minds. Books have kept ancients secrets alive. A world which least value books, least value the real essence of wisdom and least know how to preserve what is precious!

Judge a book by the way you feel after you read the last page.

The boy was a model pupil, forgettable and easily forgotten, and he sent much of his spare time in the back of the English class where there were shelves of old paperbacks, and in the school library, a large room filled with books and old armchairs, where he read stories as enthusiastically as some children ate.

Books age, they yellow, the pages dry and crackle and tear. Who can tell what tiny defect will change simple paper and ink into true meaning?

Nobody read books, but women, parsons and idle people.

From your point of view as a reader, therefore, the most important words are those that give you trouble.

Most of us are addicted to non-active reading. The outstanding fault of the non-active or undemanding reader is his inattention to words, and his consequent failure to come to terms with the author.

فأن كل أنواع القراءة تعد استراحة و هى من الأشياء التى تبعدنى عن نفسى و تمكننى من التفسح بين علوم و أنفس غريبة عنى