PinA reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one. – George R.R. MartinPinShow me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. – Napoleon BonapartePinOnce you learn to read, you will be forever free. – Frederick DouglassPinThe more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. — Dr. SeussPinThe books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. ― Oscar WildePinI think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them. – Emma ThompsonPinBooks 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. EliotPinSome books leave us free and some books make us free. – Ralph Waldo EmersonPinIn the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. – Mortimer J. AdlerPinThe man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t. – Mark Twain
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.”
PinIt is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. ― Oscar WildePinReading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while. — Malorie BlackmanPinCome to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map. – Stephen KingPinThe 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 GuinPinBooks are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you. – Carlos Ruiz ZafónPinReading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. – John LockePinReading — even browsing — an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. — James GleickPinA room without books is like a body without a soul. – CiceroPinRead the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. – Henry David ThoreauPinIf we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. – Ralph Waldo EmersonPinYou 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
PinBooks 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 BennettPinBooks and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world. – Jeanette WintersonPinIn books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. – Anna QuindlenPinEach book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge. – Alberto ManguelPinThat’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. – Jhumpa LahiriPinReading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. – Jean RhysPinThe reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. — Rene DescartesPinThe books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. – Roald DahlPinA great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. ― William StyronPinOne 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 SaganPinA capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. — Abraham LincolnPinBooks are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. – Anna QuindlenPinReading is a discount ticket to everywhere. – Mary SchmichPinTo learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. – Victor HugoPinKeep 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
PinOnce you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you. – Louis L’AmourPinIf one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. ― Oscar WildePinI can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. – C.S. LewisPinYou 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 SweeneyPinSome 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)
PinToday a reader, tomorrow a leader. – Margaret FullerPinNever trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. ― Lemony SnicketPinBooks are a uniquely portable magic. – Stephen KingPinPeople say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. — Logan Pearsall SmithPinReading brings us unknown friends. – Honoré de BalzacPinShe read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. – Annie DillardPinReading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. — Joseph AddisonPinA good book is an event in my life. – StendhalPinReading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. – Mortimer J. AdlerPinBooks may well be the only true magic. – Alice HoffmanPinSleep is good, he said, and books are better. ― George R. R. MartinPinBooks 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
PinReading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. – Jim RohnPinThere is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island. – Walt DisneyPinReading 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 OkriPinOnly the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. ― Cassandra ClarePinReading was a joy, a desperately needed escape — I didn’t read to learn, I was reading to read. – Christian BaumanPinMan reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand. – Ezra PoundPinI read a book one day and my whole life was changed. – Orhan PamukPinReading is important. If you know how to read, then the whole world opens up to you. – Barack ObamaPinMy alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. – Malcolm XPinI kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. – Robert Louis StevensonPinFor 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
PinMaybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know. –Alberto ManguelPinYou can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. ― C.S. LewisPinThere are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all. – Jacqueline KennedyPinReading 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
PinRead a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn’t worth re-reading. – Susan SontagPinLibraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. – Anne HerbertPinUntil I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. – Harper LeePinA 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
PinYou don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. ― Ray BradburyPinThere are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. – Joseph BrodskyPinLet us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. ― VoltairePinBooks serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all. – Abraham LincolnPinThe 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.”
PinRainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book. – Bill WattersonPinNo entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. – Mary Wortley MontaguPinDo 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
PinMake it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. – George Bernard ShawPinChildren are made readers on the laps of their parents. – Emilie BuchwaldPinReading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift. — Kate DiCamilloPinLet us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world. – Malala YousafzaiPinA children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest. ― C.S. LewisPinIt is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. – Arthur Conan DoylePinYou’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
Pin′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read. – Mark TwainPinBooks 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 GreenPinReading one book is like eating one potato chip. – Diane DuanePinA good book would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit. – David SedarisPinI find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ― Groucho MarxPinSo 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
PinThere is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read — unless it be reading while you eat. – E. NesbitPinLet’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading. – Lena DunhamPinPeople can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. – Saul BellowPinIf you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book. – J.K. RowlingPinMany people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. – Jane SmileyPinFill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks. – Dr. SeussPinA classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. – Italo Calvino
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