Quotes About Books/Reading!
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
~Cicero
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
Books can speak to us like God, like men, or like the noise of the city.... They speak to us like God when they bring us light and peace and fill us with silence...when we desire never to leave them. They speak to us like men when we desire to hear them again. They speak to us like the noise of the city when they hold us captive by a weariness that tells us nothing, gives us no peace, and no support, nothing to remember, and yet will not let us escape
~Thomas Merton
Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.
~Rose Macaulay
Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
~Kathleen Norris
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend; when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
~Oliver Goldsmith
When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener
~Paula Fox
When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes
~Erasmus
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
~William Styron
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