26/12/2025
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
ooks may well be the only true magic
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
I don’t read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book.
Reading is essential for those who seek to rise about the ordinary.
Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you.
The power to be found between the pages of a book is formidable, indeed.
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labelled ‘This could change your life.
If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he .
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
Reading is important. If you know how to read, then the whole world opens up to you.
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
One must always be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
The story is truly finished–and meaning is made–not when the author adds the last period, but when the reader enters.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you will go.
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don’t you agree?
Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn’t worth re-reading.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: We need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we’re someone else, disrupting the delusion that we’re permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we’re saved!) other people are real again, and we’re fond of them.
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation… A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on, you are enriched threefold.
The best moments in reading are when you come across something–a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things–which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.
That’s what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It’s geometrically progressive–all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.
𝗩𝗜𝗡𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗦 𝗖𝗛𝗢𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗛
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