ReadOasis Step 2

To inspire us read more, it always helps to have a good role model. When I was a boy, my father read to me before I went to bed. I can still remember the books he read to me! In this way, my father showed me that reading books was fun and good.

We can also find inspiration to read when we hear what others say about reading. Great people (and everyday people like you and me) have said interesting things about reading. We have listed their ideas here to help us all find more power to read. We made the lists in three levels: Very Easy, Easy, and Middle. We hope you enjoy them. This one is Easy.

• “We read to know that we are not alone.” ― William Nicholson
• “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” ― Mark Twain
• “Books are not men and yet they stay alive. ” ― Stephen Vincent Benet
• “Reading is not optional.” ― Walter Dean Myers
• “No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.” ― Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
• “Reading every day keeps the brain dead sickness away.” ― Kristy Pellegrin
• “I love reading I know it’s very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it.” ― Stanley Victor Paskavich
• “I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.” ― William Hope Hodgson
• “The world belongs to those who read.” ― Rick Holland
• “Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” ― Elizabeth Hardwick
• “Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.” ― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
• “Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.” ― Mortimer J. Adler
• “A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.” Abraham Lincoln
• “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” ― Oscar Wilde
• “I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.” ― Margaret Atwood
• “The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.” ― René Descartes
• “Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else.” – Fashion designer Bill Blass, quoted in Worth (September 1999)
• “Reading will give you lasting pleasure.” – First Lady Laura Bush
• “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.” – Logan Pearsall Smith
• “Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.” – Marilyn Adams
• Reading is a means of thinking with another person’s mind; it forces you to stretch your own. – Charles Scribner, Jr.
• “If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads.” — Sherman Alexie
• “I love reading I know it’s very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it.” ― Stanley Victor Paskavich
• “You can never be wise unless you love reading.” ― Samuel Johnson, Life of Johnson
• “He that loves reading has everything within his reach.” ― William Godwin
• “Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.” — Louisa May Alcott
• “I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.” — Gary Paulsen
• A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. – Jeremy Collier
• “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.” ― Jane Smiley
• “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• “I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson