The 70 Best Quotes About Reading

Articles about reading:
1) Why Read? Benefits of Reading;
2) 7 Best Speed Reading Books;
3) 5 Brain Games For Speed Reading.

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.” — George R.R. Martin
“There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all.” — Jacqueline Kennedy
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” — C.S. Lewis
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” — Groucho Marx
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” — Joseph Addison
“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” — Mary Schmich
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” — Stephen King
“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” — Ray Bradbury
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” — Fran Lebowitz
“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.” — Roberto Bolaño
“A book is a dream you hold in your hands.” — Neil Gaiman
“Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.” — Khaled Hosseini
“Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.” — Lena Dunham
“Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape — I didn’t read to learn, I was reading to read.” — Christian Bauman
“We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind.” — Anna Quindlen
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” — Descartes
“Reading is departure and arrival.” — Terri Guillemets
“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.” — Diane Duane
“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” — Carl Sagan
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” — Anna Quindlen
“Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.” — Malorie Blackman
“Reading… a vacation for the mind… ” — Dave Barry
“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.” — Orhan Pamuk
“Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.” — Lloyd Alexander
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” — Margaret Fuller
“Books are the mirrors of the soul.” — Virginia Woolf
“A good book is an event in my life.” — Stendhal
“Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.” — Jeanette Winterson
“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 kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
“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 William Elliot
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” — Fernando Pessoa
“The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.” — George Orwell
“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.” — Walt Disney
“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.” — Napoléon Bonaparte
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” — Cicero
“I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.” — J.K. Rowling
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” — Henry David Thoreau
“Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.” — Toni Morrison
“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw
“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” — Edmund Burke
“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
Reading is my inhale, and writing is my exhale. — Glennon Doyle
“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.” — Henry Stevens
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” — Frederick Douglas
“Wear the old coat and buy the new book.” — Austin Phelps
“Reading brings us unknown friends.” — Honoré de Balzac
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” — Italo Calvino
“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.” — Bill Watterson
“Take a good book to bed with you – books do not snore.” — Thea Dorn
“I guess there are never enough books.” — John Steinbeck
“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.” — Lisa See
“My life is a reading list.” — John Irving
“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.” — Harold Bloom
“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.” — Jane Austen
“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” — J.K. Rowling
“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.” — Emilie Buchwald
“Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.” — Holbrook Jackson
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” — Groucho Marx
“I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.” — Patrick Rothfuss
“Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You’ll find what you need to find. Just read.” — Neil Gaiman
“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.” — Henry Ward Beecher
“I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.” — Elbert Hubbard
“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.” — Mortimer J. Adler
“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.” — Arthur Conan Doyle
“Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or a duty. It should be offered as a gift.” — Kate DiCamillo
“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” — Harry Truman
“When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.” — Chloe Thurlow
“The world belongs to those who read.” — Rick Holland

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