Quotes about Reading Books | Best inspirational quotes on books with images for students & teachers
A book is a dream you hold in your hands.
― Neil Gaiman
Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
― Annie Proulx
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… the man who never reads lives only one.
― George R.R. Martin
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
― Stephen King
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
― Garrison Keillor
Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.
― President Harry Truman
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
― Margaret Fuller
Leaders are always readers.
― Kevin Trudeau
An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.
― Thomas Wharton
Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures anyone can have.
― Lloyd Alexander
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
― Malala Yousafzai
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
― Mark Haddon
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
― Louisa May Alcott
Reading is my favorite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
― Anne Brontë
Reading brings us unknown friends.
― Honore de Belzac
I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a book.
― J.K. Rowling
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
― Henry David Thoreau
A word after a word after a word is power.
― Margaret Atwood
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
― Anna Quindlen
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
― Joseph Addison
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
― Mary Wortley Montagu
I have always imagined paradise will be a kind of library.
― Jorge Luis Borges
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
― David Mitchell
A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
― Abraham Lincoln
Books were my pass to personal freedom.
― Oprah Winfrey
Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore.
― Thea Dorn
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.
― Groucho Marx
Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
― Bill Patterson
Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
― Stephen Fry
That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.
― Jhumpa Lahiri
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
― William Styron
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
Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.
― Dr. Seuss
I love the smell of book ink in the morning.
― Umberto Eco
‘Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read.
― Mark Twain
Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.
― George R.R. Martin
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
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.
― Jane Smiley
The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
― Isabel Allende
If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.
― J.K. Rowling
When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.
― Erasmus
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
― Salman Rushdie
It is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.
― Donna Tartt
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
― Neil Gaiman
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
― Henry Ward Beecher
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
― Charles Baudelaire
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.
― Walt Disney
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
― Groucho Marx
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
― C.S. Lewis
If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.
― Francois Mauriac
Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.
― Hilary Mantel
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
― Kate DiCamillo
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
― Cicero
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
― Haruki Murakami
Books were safer than other people anyway.
― Neil Gaiman
Reading—even browsing—an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search.
― James Gleick
We read to know we’re not alone.
― William Nicholson
Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.
― Khaled Hosseini
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.
― R.L. Stine
Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.
― Rainer Maria Rilke
I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
― Margaret Atwood
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
― Sir Francis Bacon
The world was hers for the reading.
― Betty Smith
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
― Voltaire
If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
― Stephen King
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
― Robert Frost
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
― Fran Lebowitz
A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.
― Walter Mosley
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.
― Joyce Carol Oates
Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.
― Steven Spielberg
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
― John Locke
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
― Louis L’Amour
Reading is departure and arrival.
― Terri Guillemets
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
― P.J. O’Rourke
Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.
― Lena Dunham
The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t.
― Mark Twain
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
― Robertson Davies
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.
― Orhan Pamuk
Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.
― Holbrook Jackson
Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
― Ezra Pound
Think of this – that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.
― A.S. Byatt, Possession
There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away.
― Emily Dickinson
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
― Oscar Wilde
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
― Ray Bradbury
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
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
― Fernando Pessoa
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
― Cassandra Clare
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.
― Lemony Snicket
A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.
― C.S. Lewis
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
― Austin Phelps
The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.
― George Orwell
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
― C.S. Lewis
Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.
― Diane Duane
In 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. Adler
I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
― Henry Ward Beecher
I guess there are never enough books.
― John Steinbeck
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
― Joseph Joubert
Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.
― Anne Herbert
Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
― Ursula K. LeGuin
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
― Terry Pratchett
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
― Toni Morrison
Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
― Lemony Snicket
What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!
― Thomas Babington Macaulay
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
I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.
― Gary Paulsen
Happiness. That’s what books smells like. Happiness. That’s why I always wanted to have a book shop. What better life than to trade in happiness?
― Saran MacLean
Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don’t you agree?
― Christopher Paolini
My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
― Malcolm X
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
― Jean Rhys
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
― Dr. Seuss
Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.
― Malorie Blackman
We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind.
― Anna Quindlen
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
― Napoleon Bonaparte
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
― Mary Schmich
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
― Harper Lee
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
― Rene Descartes
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
― Logan Pearsall Smith
Reading—the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
― William Styron
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. LeGuin
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
― Haruki Murakami
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
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
― Edith Sitwell
In the end, we’ll all become stories.
― Margaret Atwood
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