Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Reading

• A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Reading, Hero

  1905 Heretics, ch.15.

• There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Education, Book

• The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is a quality of character, a freshness, a power of pleasure, a power of faith. A silly person may delight in reading masterpieces just as a silly person may delight in picking flowers. A fool may be in love with a poet as he may be in love with a woman.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Flower, Silly, Book

• Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  Defendant (1901) "Defence of Penny Dreadfuls"

• People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Reading, Simple

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

• What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Reading, Garden, Light

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