Charles Lamb Quotes

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

I'm always reading something.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go if you want to sit and think. But particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books. If you want to find out about something, the information is in the reference books---the dictionaries, the encyclopedias, the atlases. If you like to be told a story, the library is the place to go.

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

I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.

If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

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.

Read, read read. Read everything.

If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go to school.

Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.

I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.

How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.

When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.