Category: Quotes

  • “Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.”

    —Mark Haddon

  • “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.”

    —Maya Angelou

  • “The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.”

    —Anthony Trollope

  • “A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.”

    —Henry Ward Beecher

  • “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

    —Joseph Addison

  • “The books that help you most are those which make you think the most.”

    —Pablo Neruda

  • “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”

    —Walt Disney
  • “I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.”

    — Montesquieu
  • “You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.”

    — C.S. Lewis

  • “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

    — Joseph Addison