“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”
- Mary Schmich
“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
- Mason Cooley
“I was born with a reading list I will never finish.”
- Maud Casey
“There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.”
- May Ellen Chase
“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
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- Maya Angelou
“A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. Not only that, but there's no guarantee that you will enjoy it, or that it will have a happy ending.”
- Mick Foley
“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”
- Mortimer Adler
“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book ? I?ll waste no time reading it.”
- Moses Hadas
“Fluency is a bigger problem for many American middle graders than accuracy.”
- National Reading Panel, 2000
“Students who do not develop reading fluency, regardless of how bright they are, are likely to remain poor readers throughout their lives.”
- National Reading Panel, 2000
“There is ample evidence that one of the major differences between poor and good readers is the difference in the quantity of total time they spend reading.”
- National Reading Panel, 2000
“have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.”
- Oscar Levant
“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
- P. J. O'Rourke
“You teach a child to read, and he or she will be able to pass a literacy test.”
- President George W. Bush (Townsend, Tennessee, Feb. 21, 2001)
“A man is known by the books he reads.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
- Ray Bradbury
“Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word.”
- Richard L. Allington, "What Really Matters for Struggling Readers" (2001)
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
- Richard Steele
“So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
- Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
- Robertson Davies
“It is not true we have only one life to love, if we can read, we can live as many lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.”
- S.I. Hayakawa
“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.”
- Samuel Johnson
“A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.”
- Samuel Johnson
“Choose an author as you choose a friend.”
- Sir Christopher Wren
“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
- Somerset Maugham
“The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.”
- Stan Barstow
“Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies to speak; they just do. But reading is different.”
- Steven Pinker
“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
- Victor Hugo
“Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.”
- Voltaire
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
- W. Fusselman
“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.”
- Walt Disney
“The first law of skillful reading is merely an application of the Law of Relative Importance. You must perceive, first of all, the total offerings of the printed matter; then you must appraise these.”
- Walter Pitkin, The Art of Rapid Reading
“What is reading but silent conversation?”
- Walter Savage Landor
“Read, read, read.”
- William Faulkner
“So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.”
- William James
“The only thing better than good English writing is - I can't think of anything. You just don't pour it pureed over your potatoes. You savor it as if it were a find chardonnay. What on Earth does it matter if you stop and repeat a phrase, roll it around on your tongue, dart a few lines ahead and then suddenly come back and reread it? If the phrase is good enough, you are supposed to stop and rejoice in it.”
- William Murchison
“I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget.”
- William Phelps
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