Gregory Maguire Quotes

Read books. They are good for us.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

Reading is a huge part of life.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can reach. Want to reach higher? Stack some more books under your feet! Reading is what brings us to new knowledge. It opens new doors. It helps us understand mysteries. It lets us hear from successful people. Reading is what takes us down the road in our journey. Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

I know of no other practise which will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects. There is a great potential within each of us to go on learning. Regardless of our age, unless there be serious illness, we can read, study, drink in the writings of wonderful men and women. It is never too late to learn.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

I read books by other coaches all the time.

He fed his spirit with the bread of books

I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people.

Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.