123 Quotes About Reading-for-life

An illiterate person who dies, let us say at my age, has lived one life, whereas I have lived the lives of Napoleon, Caesar, d’Artagnan. So I always encourage young people to read books, because it’s an ideal way to develop a great memory and a ravenous multiple personality. And then at the end of your life you have lived countless lives, which is a fabulous privilege.

Everything I ever learned, I learned from books.

If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder!

La mente umana, anche una mente minuscola, aborrisce l'ambiguità

I haven't got time to read books.''What do you mean you haven't got time? What are you doing?''Lots of things: studying French, writing a diary, and ...''And what?'She was about to say 'waiting for the phone to ring', but she thought it best to say nothing.'My dear, you're still very young, you've got your whole life ahead of you. Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and just read.''I've read loads of books.

Like so many of the other books I read, it never seemed to me like a book, but like a place I had lived in, had visited and would visit again, just as all the people in them, every blessed one – Anne of Green Gables, Heidi, Jay Gatsby, Elizabeth Bennet, Scarlet O'Hara, Dill and Scout, Miss Marple, and Hercule Poirot – were more real than the real people I knew.

I lived within the cover of books and those books were more real to me than any other thing in my life.

Everytime I climbed the stairs, my heart lifted.

Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves.