...Quotes on Reading, Writing @ Literature...

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I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

— William Lyon Phelps

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A house without books is like a room without windows.

— Heinrich Mann

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Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

— Kathleen Norris

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To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.

— Chinese Proverb

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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

— P.J. O'Rourke

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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

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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.

— Mark Twain

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A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

— C.S. Lewis

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

— Ray Bradbury

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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

— Gustave Flaubert

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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

— Robert Frost

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In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

— Mortimer J. Adler

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No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

— C.S. Lewis

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We live for books

— Umberto Eco

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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

— Franois Mauriac

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It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

— C.S. Lewis

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A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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