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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.


Maya Angelou

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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH What makes a good book? Simply put, a good book is one that you enjoy reading.
CARMELA DUTRA A person, for example, reads in adulthood a book that is important for him, and it makes him say, "H...
ITALO CALVINO What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading
ALICE JAMES I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are alwa...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.
ANN BRASHARES Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book jus...
MARCIA GAY HARDEN I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.
LEMONY SNICKET The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the s...
C.S. LEWIS Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
ALAIN DE BOTTON Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
THE PROPHET OF LIFE كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�...
مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book abou...
DREW HOUSTON The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everyth...
RENE DENFELD To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries o...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries o...
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miserie...
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM The characteristics of this kind of reading are perhaps summed up in the word “orthodox,” which ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER Reading a fantasy book is a commitment...a commitment to adventure...a commitment to bravery. You ma...
POLANDBANANASBOOKS The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over ha...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over ha...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I feel very honored that I got a chance to work with Maya Angelou and Oprah Winfrey.
STANLEY CLARKE If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
OSCAR WILDE [Fifty-nine year old Richard Smith, of Sylvania Township, doesn't need a state poet laureate - or so...
RUDYARD KIPLING He wondered what book he might be reading when he finally breathed his last, and determined to grab ...
ANDREW PETERSON Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my reader...
R. A. SALVATORE Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.
ROBERT BYRNE We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
QUINTILIAN We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write o...
ROBERT BYRNE No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write o...
ROBERT BYRNE Reading a book is like meeting a wise person who has plenty of time to share his ideas with you.
ILZE LITIņA The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person read...
MEM FOX The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning i...
PABLO NERUDA The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning i...
THEODORE PARKER Art is a form of communication, just like reading and writing.
DONNA NAPOLITANO You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all...
STEVEN WRIGHT I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
ANTHONY BURGESS For me, a holiday is about taking a book and going to a mountain and reading.
SONAM KAPOOR How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.
ORSON SCOTT CARD One possibility is that the [visual word form area] performs a visual processing function that predi...
ALEX MARTIN There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of...
STEPHEN R. COVEY Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth read...
SUSAN SONTAG The sad thing about reading the book and then watching the movie is that they have to die all over a...
JOYCE RACHELLE The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of th...
ANATOLE BROYARD لم يكن بمقدوري سوى الهروب إلى عالمي الخاص: إلى الحلم. أت...
مليكة مستظرف Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.
DIANE DUANE It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have re...
C.S. LEWIS Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
MARK HADDON History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Consider a small child sitting on his mother's lap while she reads him a picture book. The picture b...
MARTHA V. PARRAVANO He's reading Hemingway and writing his life story. It's so gratifying to see him reading Hemingway.
PATRICIA STEVENS Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.
WILLIAM OSLER If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice.
AMAN JASSAL A program of active reading and writing might be the hardest form of thinking, but it is also the mo...
KILROY J. OLDSTER It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a hab...
ELIHU ROOT Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
UNSOURCED, MISATTRIBUTED TO MAYA ANGELOU Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth read...
ASHWIN SANGHI Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books,
NELSON MANDELA Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around...
GUY JOHNSON And it occurred to her that reading was, among other things, a muscle and one that she had seemingly...
ALAN BENNETT How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.
KENNETH PACHEN Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ...
ALBERTO MANGUEL She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I ma...
CANDACE CAMP I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading ...
CHRIS RASCHKA A book worth reading is worth buying.
JOHN RUSKIN Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and p...
PAUL THEROUX You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - i...
MAYA ANGELOU Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccess...
MAYA ANGELOU This is how I passed my time was reading his book.
CARLOS MARTINEZ It's a sad state of affairs when we make fun of people for reading instead of making reading fun for...
JEN SELINSKY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. For my 2015 Book Reading Challenge resolution, the 1 (one) book I want to read is titled: "Write, yo...
ROLF AND RANGER Just the child seeing a parent with a book or a newspaper, or reading a recipe or a book on how to r...
GINGER WILLIFORD As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; m...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years ...
RACHEL TUCKER If you pay a child a dollar to read a book, as some schools have tried, you not only create an expec...
MICHAEL SANDEL One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others...
MARY ROACH Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, be...
NORA EPHRON Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for your...
MAXIM GORKY Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural he...
MAYA ANGELOU The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you...
FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
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MAYA ANGELOU Nothing will work unless you do.
MAYA ANGELOU Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
MAYA ANGELOU You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
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MAYA ANGELOU Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise...
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MAYA ANGELOU Life loves the liver of it.
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MAYA ANGELOU I answer the heroic question Death where is thy sting? It is here in my heart and mind and memories
MAYA ANGELOU ...there is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. I
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MAYA ANGELOU If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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MAYA ANGELOU I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I&#...
MAYA ANGELOU You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot -...
MAYA ANGELOU I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself ...
MAYA ANGELOU If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
MAYA ANGELOU It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is...
MAYA ANGELOU If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
MAYA ANGELOU All great achievements require time.
MAYA ANGELOU Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
MAYA ANGELOU You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I ...
MAYA ANGELOU I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
MAYA ANGELOU Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. T...
MAYA ANGELOU There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more ...
MAYA ANGELOU I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
MAYA ANGELOU I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people ...
MAYA ANGELOU It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
MAYA ANGELOU We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can...
MAYA ANGELOU I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
MAYA ANGELOU I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life lo...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
MAYA ANGELOU I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
MAYA ANGELOU The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else'...
MAYA ANGELOU Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and...
MAYA ANGELOU Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessi...
MAYA ANGELOU One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can...
MAYA ANGELOU If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And y...
MAYA ANGELOU History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaki...
MAYA ANGELOU What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been pai...
MAYA ANGELOU Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
MAYA ANGELOU We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
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