Tag: book

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious

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

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show

One must always be careful of books,” said Tessa, “and what is inside them

Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you’ll die of a misprint

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book

If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been

‘Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read.

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines

There is no friend as loyal as a book

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again

The more that you read, the more things you will know

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them