Think before you speak. Read before you think.
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
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