Quotes about reading

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies,” said Jojen. “The man who never reads lives only one.”

A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands.

Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.

Any man can read, my lord. There is no magic needed, nor high birth.

“Sleep is good,” he said. “And books are better.”

My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind...And a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

She was a reader; there were many citizens who were not. The prevailing social explanation for illiteracy was that there were people who were temperamentally unsuited for reading—and indeed there were few callings in a computerized, video-saturated world that required literacy. Lilo accepted that, but had always had a feeling that most people never learned to read because they simply were not smart enough.

I found that it is much more pleasurable to read adventures than to live them.

In my protracted sojourn on this planet, Mr. Candle, I have come to value three commodities above all others: good books, decent claret, and worthy opponents.

I love to live vicariously, in a book or a holo, but I think I can stand one dose of reality before it’s my time.

That fabulous polymath Samuel Johnson maintained that no man in his right mind ever read a book through from beginning to end.

Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.