Category: Quotes

  • “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

    —Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • “You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child.”

    —Anita Merina
  • “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”

    —Frederick Douglas
  • “Reading for me, is spending time with a friend.”

    —Gary Paulsen
  • I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.

    —Emma Thompson
  • “Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky,

    My pile of books is a mile high.

    How I love them! How I need them!

    I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.”

    — Arnold Lobel
  • Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

    — Lemony Snicket

  • “Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or a duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.” 

    ―Kate DiCamillo
  • Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

    —Joseph Addison

  • You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.

    ―Charlotte’s Web by E.B.White