50 Reading Quotes – To Make You Love Books Even More
Looking for the best reading quotes? These 50 epic quotes about reading will instantly warm your heart today.
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The following quotes about reading will instantly warm your heart.
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Let me share with you the most inspiring, loveliest reading quotes.
So without further ado, here are the 50 reading quotes – embrace these and enjoy!
READING QUOTES
1 – A book is a gift you can open again and again. Garrison Keillor
2 – She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. Annie Dillard
3 – No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books. Romain Rolland
4 – The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. Dr Seuss
5 – There’s so much more to a book than just reading. Maurice Sendak
6 – Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. Jim Rohn
7- A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one. George R.R. Martin
8 – There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island. Walt Disney
9 – Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people – people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book. E.B. White
10 – 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 W. Eliot
READING QUOTES
11 – You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive. James Baldwin
12 – Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread. Henry Stevens
13 – Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. Napoleon Bonaparte
14 – Think before you speak. Read before you think. Fran Lebowitz
15 – As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music.
And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul. Ursula K. Le Guin
16 – Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.
Following complex storylines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps. Ann Patchett
17- Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.. Margaret Fuller
18 – Reading brings us unknown friends. Honoré de Balzac
19 – I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association.
My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction. Tahereh Mafi,
20 – A room without books is like a body without a soul. Cicero
READING QUOTES
21 – The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. Rene Descartes
22 – That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library. Aphra Behn
23 – Books are a uniquely portable magic. Stephen King
24 – We read to know we’re not alone. William Nicholson
25 – Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper. David Quammen
26 – I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book. Benedict Cumberbatch
27- That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. Jhumpa Lahiri
28 – Once upon a time’ is one of the most magical phrases you’ll ever read. Unknown
29 – Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. Harold Bloom
30 – 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 QUOTES
31 – A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. Charles Baudelaire
32 – Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. Carlos Ruiz Zafón
33 – Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. Mary Schmich
34 – Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. Frederick Douglas
35 – Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. Anne Herbert
36 – 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
37- The person who deserves the most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read. Benjamin Franklin
38 – When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own. John Berger
39 – It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don’t have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in. Naomi Shihab Nye
40 – Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: They feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored.
We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It’s like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea.
You can’t stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship. Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
READING QUOTES
41 – Some books leave us free and some books make us free. Ralph Waldo Emerson
42 – In the end, we’ll all become stories. Margaret Atwood
43 – There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. Joseph Brodsky
44 – Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. Mortimer J. Adler
45 – Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. Gustave Flaubert
46 – The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night. Isabel Allende
47- We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind. Anna Quindlen
48 – When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young. Maya Angelou
49 – Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. Henry David Thoreau
50 – No. I can survive well enough on my own—if given the proper reading material. Sarah J. Maas
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Frances Vidakovic
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