“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few are to be chewed and digested.”
- Francis Bacon
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
- Frederick Douglass
“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.”
- Gaston Bachelard
“The nonreading children are the greatest problem in American education.”
- Glenn Doman, "How to Teach Your Baby to Read"
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
- Groucho Marx
“Read in order to live.”
- Gustave Flaubert
“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
- Harry S. Truman
“All evidence points to the seemingly illogical conclusion that the faster most people read, the better they understand.”
- Harry Shefter, Faster Reading Self-Taught
“Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.”
- Hazel Rochman
“When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.”
- Henny Youngman
“The goal in fluency instruction is not fast reading, although that happens to be a by-product of the instruction, but fluent meaning-filled reading.”
- International Reading Association
“There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.”
- Isaac D'Israeli
“There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.”
- Jacqueline Kennedy
“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.”
- John Berger
“Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.”
- John Witherspoon
“Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.”
- Joseph Addison
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
- Joseph Brodsky
“The great objection to new books is that they prevent our reading old ones.”
- Joseph Joubert
“It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations--something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.”
- Katherine Patterson
“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.”
- Lady Montagu
“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
- Logan Pearsall Smith
“It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.”
- Lord Henry P. Brougham
“Teaching reading IS rocket science.”
- Louisa Moats
“A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance.”
- Lyndon Baines Johnson
“Listening to good models of fluent reading, students can learn how a reader's voice can help text make sense.”
- M.R. Kuhn & S.A. Stahl, "Fluency: A Review of Development and Remedial Practices" (2003)
“Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.”
- Madonna (1991)
“It has been established beyond a shadow of doubt that readers in general waste a great deal of time and effort.”
- Manya and Eric De Leeuw, Read Better, Read Faster: A New Approach to Efficient Reading
“Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.”
- Marcel Proust
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
- Margaret Fuller
“A text is at a students' independent reading level if they can read it with about 95% accuracy.”
- Marie B. Clay, "An observation survey of early literacy achievement" (1993)
“As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the... story can provide some guide for a fluent reading.”
- Marie Clay
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read.”
- Mark Twain
“A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”
- Mark Twain
“A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.”
- Martin Tupper
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