TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they’ll have with twenty-six. Open your child’s imagination. Open a book. ~Author Unknown
You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. ~Paul Sweeney
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. ~Edmund Burke
Never judge a book by its movie. ~J.W. Eagan
My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. ~Thomas Helm
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. ~Groucho Marx
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ~Charles W. Eliot
If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison
Books are a uniquely portable magic. ~Stephen King
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ~Richard Steele
To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one. ~Chinese Saying
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. ~Anatole France
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. ~Mary Wortley Montagu
God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. ~W.E. Channing
Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay. ~William Styron
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. ~John LeCarre
A house without books is like a room without windows. ~Heinrich Mann
The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television. ~Andrew Ross
Lord! when you sell a man a book you don’t sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book. ~Christopher Morley
