#reading

"I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey."

"Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually."

"Hey, Geekoid!"yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?"

"There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?"

"And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you're a Person of Letters or merely someone who loves books, and I'm beginning to see that the book lovers have more fun."

"it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do."

"Woe be to him that reads but one book."

"You can't just skip the boring parts.""Of course I can skip the boring parts.""How do you know they're boring if you don't read them?""I can tell.""Then you can't say you've read the whole play.""I think I can live a happy life, Meryl Lee, even if I don't read the boring parts of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.""Who knows?"she said. "Maybe you can't."

"Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary."

"The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows."

"There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book."

"A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget."

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

"Patience is a virtue not a vice."

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others."

"Reading one book is like eating one potato chip."

"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."

"Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,Are a substantial world, both pure and good:Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,Our pastime and our happiness will grow."

"The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read."

"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book."