Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice - read books.

If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If your light and knowledge be not turned into practice, the more knowing a man you are, the more miserable a man you will be in the day of recompense; your light and knowledge will more torment you than all the devils in hell. Your knowledge will be that rod that will eternally lash you, and that scorpion that will forever bite you, and that worm that will everlastingly gnaw you; therefore read, and labor to know that you may do--or else you are undone forever.

I am thankful to my teachers who taught me how to read.

If a nation reads what is good with a good understanding, it gets a good understanding for a good nation building!

Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.

Reading is the life-saving water for our minds. Drink pure words as much as you need and remain alive!

For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has only a very sketchy relation with the habits of any real readers. Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table.

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.

My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour.

My mother taught me that reading is a kind of work, and that every paragraph merits exertion, and in this way, I learned how to absorb difficult books.

Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step.

School children, who have enjoyed reading a romance or a detective thriller or a novel about terror and conquest, make the invariable mistake of studying literature in the college. They make the mistake of learning theory in place of art; they acquire impediments in their own enjoyment of the books by allowing a set of theories to govern their own reading.

A neighbor once told me he had trouble with García Márquez’s novel because he likes to drink while he reads, and 'The Autumn of the Patriarch' gave him no space in which to take a sip of his beer.

All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a pond. The good news is that the acts of searching and gathering always expand the number of usable words.

Make wise choices about what you read. Read only what is necessary or worthwhile. And then take the time to read carefully. One book read with concentration and reflected upon is worth a hundred flashed through without any absorption at all.

Reading is weightlifting for the brain

In great thick dusty books he readAnd hardly ever went to bedBefore it was e

Read! It is as important as breathing until you are breathing.

The biblical stories are the greatest sacred-inspirations.

Reading gives liberty to your mind.

I "love" reading.It makes me feel like I am swallowing up Christ, Homer, Confucius, Newton, Franklin, Socrates, Caesar, and the whole world into one gigantic invincible Sir Moffat. Mine is creative reading. I read building empires in mind. I pray I won't read and read and forget to marry.

Great literature makes a great life.

Lover of books, lover of knowledge.

For peace read books, for success read books and take actions.

If you don't find a good teacher, find a good book.

I can lend you my money not my books.

The act of reading is a skill that can be cultivated.

People with large book collections are almost always diligent learners.

Live to read, read to learn.

A book is a treasure of life.

[I]t is not hasty reading--but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee’s touching of the flower, which gathers honey--but her abiding for a time upon the flower, which draws out the sweet. It is not he who reads most--but he who meditates most, who will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.

Happiness is a state of mental,physical and spiritual well-being. Think pleasantly,engaged sport and read daily to enhance your well-being.

The Bible is the greatest book ever written.

Embrace what works and discard what doesn't.

I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good t

When you travel, buy a historical book about the place, read to increase your knowledge on the beautiful places of the world.

When I have money, I invest in buying books. My personal development by reading these books is my greatest pleasure.

Read good books to improve yourself.

Keep reading, Keep learning.

May you find comfort by reading and mediation on God’s word.

Just imagine what you are losing just because you are not reading!

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it.

If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice.

Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.

I am a passionate reader.New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books.

The world of books captured my heart.

Be great, read great books.

I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible.

I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too.

Don't buy books for your shelf, buy them for yourself.

You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

You ought to learn as best as you can.

I love pleasure of reading, writing and dancing.

I am made of words. When you cut me, I bleed sentences. When you read me, I speak to your soul.

As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.

Author visits are a fun way to engage kids, and encourage reading!

The books. Are unhappy.

If you don’t want to waste your time on thinking, start reading.

Reading is like a bridge which fills the gap between the real world and the imaginations.

The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.

The act of reading will enrich your life.Become a lifelong learner and a reader.

I have falling in love with reading.

In reading you must pursue to become a creator.

A man who does not read miss great wisdom.

Live to read.Read for life.

Life is a book. Read it.

I am lost in the world of books. So many books to read.

In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time -- none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads--and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.

And it occurred to her that reading was, among other things, a muscle and one that she had seemingly developed. She could read the novel with ease and great pleasure, laughing at remarks, they were hardly jokes, that she had not even noticed before.

The question isn't whether I have time to read or not (time that nobody will ever give me, by the way), but whether I'll allow myself the pleasure of being a reader.

Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down.

There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't.

There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.

People who don't read fiction are scared of what's inside their own heads.

Read whatever book you lay your hands on if you can, for every writer has a story to tell

I read used books because fingerprint-smudged and dog-eared pages are heavier on the eye. Because every book can belong to many lives. Books should be kept in public places and step out with passersby who'll onto them for a spell. Books should die like people, consumed by aches and pains, infected, drowning off a bridge together with the suicides, poked into a potbellied stove, torn apart by children to make paper boats. They should die of anything, in other words, except boredom, as private property condemned to a life sentence on a shelf.

That's how you have to read this book, you see. You wade through a few sentences, then stop and think about them, then wade through a few more.

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

I have found that reading is much better than a good sleep.

Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover’s besetting sin, of what Mr. Edgar Allan Poe calls ‘the mad pride of intellectuality,’ taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books.

Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.

Drop everithing and read.

You poor girl, what sort of aged, unfriendly Libraries have you met in short life? A silent Library is a sad Library ... A Library should be full of exclamations! ... A Library should be full of now-just-a-minutes and that-can't-be-rights and scientifick folk running skelter to prove somebody wrong... A Library should not shush ; it should roar !