#reading

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

"Sleep is good, he said, and books are better."

"We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us."

"There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does something for us. We can share great minds, great actions, and great undertakings in the pages of a book."

"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."

"You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book."

"To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind."

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."

"Passion for books is pleasurable."

"I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage."

"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..."

"Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge."

"Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic."

"A good reading strengthens the soul."

"Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real."

"A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is."

"Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today."

"Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter."

"Donde no hay libros hace frío. Vale para las casas, las ciudades, los países. Un frío cataclismo, un páramo de amnesia"

"He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world."