10 Dollops of Wisdom on Reading
1. The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. – Elizabeth Hardwick.
2. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. – Thomas Carlyle.
3. 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.
4. We read to know that we are not alone. – C.S. Lewis.
5. You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. – Paul Sweeney.
6. Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. – Voltaire.
7. Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window. – William Faulkner.
8. Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. – Jane Smiley.
9. Books are a uniquely portable magic. – Stephen King.
10. I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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