554 Quotes About Reading-books

The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.

There is no such thing as a bad book, I just like some books more than others…

Read a good book every day. Books help to educate the soul. The mere joy of learning something new will instill the will to live in you.

Good fiction often gives us characters in extremity, which ironically gives us a clearer mirror in which to see ourselves.

Read different to think differently; world is already into rat race.

That was what the books did—they turned off your thinking for you, put their thoughts in your head so you wouldn't have your own.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean—reading is pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it.

A series of books, dilapidated and faded, sit bundled together. Most of the bindings are separating from the yellowed pages, but each is at home in its battered state. Their wrinkled pages and discolored skin tell not of old age, but of a good life. These books, unlike so many others, were not just read, but revisited, loved, and experienced.