107 Inspirational Quotes About Reading (MAGIC)

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12 Wise Quotes About Reading (WISDOM)

“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

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 — 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**

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while. — Malorie Blackman — Reading is an exercise in **empathy**; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while. — Malorie Blackman

Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map. – Stephen King — Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. **Explore** it and draw your own map. – **Stephen King**

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live a live thing, a story. — Ursula K. Le Guin — The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Books are mirrors You only see in them what you already have inside you. – Carlos Ruiz Zafón — Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you. – Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. – John Locke — Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of **knowledge**; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. – **John Locke**

Reading — even browsing — an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. — James Gleick

A room without books is like a body without a soul. - Cicero — A room without books is like a body without a soul. – **Cicero**

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. - Henry David Thoreau — Read the best books first, or you may not have a **chance** to read them at all. – **Henry David Thoreau**

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. - Ralph Waldo Emerson — If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. – **Ralph Waldo Emerson**

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free. – Paul Rand

15 Quotes on Reading and Traveling to a Different World

Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. – Alan Bennett — Books are not about passing **time**. They’re about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. – Alan Bennett

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world. – Jeanette Winterson

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. – Anna Quindlen — In books I have **traveled**, not only to other worlds, but into my own. – Anna Quindlen

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge. – Alberto Manguel

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. - Jhumpa Lahiri — That’s the thing about books. They let you **travel** without moving your feet. – **Jhumpa Lahiri**

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. – Jean Rhys

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. — Rene Descartes — The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. — **Rene Descartes**

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. – Roald Dahl — The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. – **Roald Dahl**

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. ― William Styron

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 — 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

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. — Abraham Lincoln — A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. — **Abraham Lincoln**

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. – Anna Quindlen

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. - Mary Schmich — Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. – Mary Schmich

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. - Victor Hugo — To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. – **Victor Hugo**

Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have. – Lloyd Alexander

5 Powerful Quotes that will Inspire You to Reread a Good Book Again

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you. - Louis L’Amour — Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you. – Louis L’Amour

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. ― Oscar Wilde — If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. ― **Oscar Wilde**

I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. - C.S. Lewis — I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. – **C.S. Lewis**

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 — 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

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. ― Sir Francis Bacon

12 Short Inspirational Quotes on Reading (MAGIC)

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. – Margaret Fuller — Today a reader, tomorrow a **leader**. – Margaret Fuller

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. ― Lemony Snicket — Never **trust** anyone who has not brought a book with them. ― Lemony Snicket

Books are a uniquely portable magic. – Stephen King — Books are a uniquely portable magic. – **Stephen King**

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. — Logan Pearsall Smith — People say that **life** is the thing, but I prefer reading. — Logan Pearsall Smith

Reading brings us unknown friends. - Honoré de Balzac — Reading brings us unknown friends. – **Honoré de Balzac**

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. - Annie Dillard — She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. – Annie Dillard

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. — Joseph Addison

A good book is an event in my life. - Stendhal — A good book is an event in my life. – Stendhal

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. - Mortimer J. Adler — Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good **life**. – Mortimer J. Adler

Books may well be the only true magic. – Alice Hoffman

Sleep is good, he said, and books are better. ― George R. R. Martin

Books are the mirrors of the soul. ― Virginia Woolf — Books are the mirrors of the soul. ― **Virginia Woolf**

12 Motivational Quotes that will Inspire You to Read More Books

“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

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. - Jim Rohn — Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. – **Jim Rohn**

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. - Walt Disney — There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island. – **Walt Disney**

Reading is an act of civilization; it’s one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities. — Ben Okri

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. ― Cassandra Clare — Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and **poetry**. ― Cassandra Clare

Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape — I didn’t read to learn, I was reading to read. – Christian Bauman

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand. - Ezra Pound — Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand. – Ezra Pound

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed. - Orhan Pamuk — I read a book one day and my whole life was changed. – Orhan Pamuk

Reading is important. If you know how to read, then the whole world opens up to you. – Barack Obama — Reading is important. If you know how to read, then the whole world opens up to you. – **Barack Obama**

My alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. - Malcolm X — My alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. – **Malcolm X**

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. - Robert Louis Stevenson — I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. – **Robert Louis Stevenson**

For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime. - Audrey Hepburn — For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime. – **Audrey Hepburn**

20 Quotes About Reading that Will Make You Think

“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

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books to find words for what we already know. - Alberto Manguel — Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know. –Alberto Manguel

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. ― C.S. Lewis — You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. ― **C.S. Lewis**

There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all. – Jacqueline Kennedy

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. - Mark Haddon — Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. – Mark Haddon

“It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.”
John Waters

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn’t worth re-reading. – Susan Sontag

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. - Anne Herbert — Libraries will get you through **times** of no **money** better than money will get you through times of no libraries. – Anne Herbert

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. - Harper Lee — Until I **feared** I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. – **Harper Lee**

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. – Charles Baudelaire

“Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we’re someone else, disrupting the delusion that we’re permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we’re saved!) other people are real again, and we’re fond of them.”
George Saunders

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. ― Ray Bradbury — You don’t have to burn books to destroy a **culture**. Just get people to stop reading them. ― Ray Bradbury

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. - Joseph Brodsky — There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. – Joseph Brodsky

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. ― Voltaire — Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. ― **Voltaire**

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all. - Abraham Lincoln — Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all. – **Abraham Lincoln**

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read. - Benjamin Franklin — The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read. – **Benjamin Franklin**

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book. - Bill Watterson — Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book. – Bill Watterson

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. - Mary Wortley Montagu — No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. – Mary Wortley Montagu

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 — 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**

7 Reading Quotes for Kids and Children

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. - George Bernard Shaw — Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. – **George Bernard Shaw**

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. - Emilie Buchwald — **Children** are made readers on the laps of their parents. – Emilie Buchwald

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift. — Kate DiCamillo — Reading should not be presented to **children** as a chore, a **duty**. It should be offered as a **gift**. — Kate DiCamillo

Let us remember One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world. - Malala Yousafzai — Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world. – **Malala Yousafzai**

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest. ― C.S. Lewis — A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by **children** is not a good children’s story in the slightest. ― **C.S. Lewis**

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. - Arthur Conan Doyle — It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. – **Arthur Conan Doyle**

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child. - Anita Merina — You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child. – Anita Merina

14 Funny Quotes About Reading

′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read. - Mark Twain — ′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read. – **Mark Twain**

Books are the ultimate Dumpees put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back. ― John Green — Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back. ― **John Green**

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip. - Diane Duane — Reading one book is like eating one potato chip. – Diane Duane

A good book would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit. – David Sedaris

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ― Groucho Marx — I find television very **educating**. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ― Groucho Marx

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall. - Roald Dahl — So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall. – Roald Dahl

“Books are, let’s face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time.”
Nick Hornby