So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.