I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.” That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. – Amos Bronson Alcott 58 One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” You might also like: Quotes About Banned Books | Good Good Good Book Recommendations | Book Holidays & Months Calendar Prominent figures and authors have spoken on the impact reading has had on their lives, shaping them into the changemakers they are today.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book is only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself. – Maxim Gorky 25 Real meaning: There are several explanations for this old saying, but it is generally attributed to a night of drunken antics in 1837 by the Marquis of Waterford. If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.”– Toni Morrison (print from Brighton Gifts)Learn about several popular sayings that people get confused by, and see how to use them correctly. Real meaning: In the 19 th century, a hat was used to indicate the start of a race or a fight. A hat would be dropped or swept in a downward arc and participants would begin.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. – Henry David Thoreau 47 A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”– Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”– Neil Gaiman in Coraline(print by Aenaon Art Work) Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”– Anna Quindlen in How Reading Changed My Life

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. – Ralph Waldo Emerson 5

Further Readings

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.” Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men, have mediocrity thrust upon them