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  • Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

    Prayer   Book   Reading  
    Matthew Kelly (2003). “Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star”, p.243, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing
  • Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

  • I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

    Reading   Book   Learning  
  • To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

    Book   Reading   Healing  
    Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr
  • There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

    "The Balancing Act: Mastering the Competing Demands of Leadership". Book by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler and Ron McMillan, 1996.
  • The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you a constantly growing knowledge of what has been done and what hasn't, what is trite and what is fresh, what works and what lies there dying (or dead) on the page. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

    Real   Lying   Reading  
    Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.145, Simon and Schuster
  • We know that children need help to read, and the best time to start them reading is very young. We believe that when children see adults from all walks of life and from throughout the community reading to them, that is another opportunity for children to see the importance of reading.

  • You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

    FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 08, 2014
  • Love of books is the best of all.

    Reading   Book   Literacy  
  • Richer than I you can never be, I had a mother who read to me.

    Strickland Gillilan, “The Reading Mother”
  • There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

    Art   Book   Reading  
  • Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

    Reading   Book   Forever  
  • I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

    Nature   Book   Reading  
    "Dreamtigers". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1960.
  • It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

  • Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

    Austin Phelps (1882). “The Theory of Preaching: Lectures on Homiletics”
  • There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

  • To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

    Reading   Views   Ideas  
  • 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.

    FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Aug 30, 2015
  • I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

    Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.119, Ballantine Books
  • Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

  • My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.

  • There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

    Art   Reading   Writing  
    'The Literary Character' (1795) ch. 11
  • The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream. Reading not only educates, but is relaxing and allows you to feed your imagination - creating beautiful pictures from carefully chosen words.

  • There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

    Children   Book   Reading  
  • You may have tangible wealth untold: Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be I had a Mother who read to me.

    Strickland Gillilan, “The Reading Mother”
  • As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.

    "Chang-rae Lee on War, Alienation, and the Power of Reading". Interview with Ru Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2012.
  • Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

    Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Literature and Life”, p.38
  • It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

    Life   Book   Reading  
  • Growing up, my parents managed to show me the importance of reading without cramming it down my throat. A difficult task, I'm sure. It breaks my heart to think that there are kids out there, ready to have their imaginations lit on fire, excited and wanting to read, and facing naked shelves in their school or local libraries. Rather than complain or wait till the system stops failing our nation's children this is a matter I feel we must take into our own hands. There are children, right now, waiting-wanting to read. What shall we tell them>

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

    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.270
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