Read! Read! Read!

“Read in order to live.” Gustave Flaubert

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”  Confucious

“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 more that you read, the more things you will know.  The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”  Dr. Seuss

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” Charles W. Eliot

“Books had instant replay long before televised sports.” Bern Williams

“Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.”  Horace Mann

“We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.”   B. F. Skinner

“Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path.”  Carl Sagan

“It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations–something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.” Katherine Patterson

“There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.” Jacqueline Kennedy

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”  Ray Bradbury

“There is ample evidence that one of the major differences between poor and good readers is the difference in the quantity of total time they spend reading.” National Reading Panel, 2000

“I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.” Anna Quindlen, “Enough Bookshelves,” New York Times, 7 August 1991.

“In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.”  S. I. Hayakawa

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” W. Somerset Maugham

“Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.”  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I had just taken to reading.  I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes…  My world began to expand very rapidly,… the reading habit had got me securely.” H. G. Wells

“We read to know we are not alone.”     C.S. Lewis

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” attributed to Mark Twain

“The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one’s encounter with it in a book.” André Maurois

“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” Oscar Wilde

“When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before. ” Clifton Fadiman

“Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.”   John Witherspoon

“When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.”  Rita Mae Brown

“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks about education.”  Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education