100+ Best Reading Quotes To Inspire You To Love Reading Books

Famous Reading Quotes

1. A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one. – George R.R. Martin.
2. I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them. – Emma Thompson.
3. Take a good book to bed with you – books do not snore. – Thea Dorn.
4. “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.” –
5. When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly. – Chloe Thurlow.
6. The world belongs to those who read. – Rick Holland.
   

   ---

   

7. If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book. – K. Rowling.
8. Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. – Harold Bloom.
9. The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. – Rene Descartes.
10. Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all – Abraham Lincoln.
11. “No. I can survive well enough on my own – if given the proper reading material.” — Sarah J. Maas.
12. “I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.” – Robert Louis Stevenson.
13. A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting. – Walter Mosley.
14. Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread. – Henry Stevens.
    

    ---

    

15. I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author. – Elbert Hubbard.
16. “There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away.” – Emily Dickinson (American poet).
17. There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. – Joseph Brodsky.
18. Some books leave us free and some books make us free. – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
19. Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are. – Mason Cooley.
20. Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. – Sir Francis Bacon.
21. I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. – Jane Austen.
22. “Reading for me, is spending time with a friend.” – Gary Paulsen.
23. 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.
24. Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge. – Alberto Manguel.
25. Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work. – Khaled Hosseini.
26. 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.
27. Books are things of fiction that seem like reality. – Unknown.
28. “The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.” – Benjamin Franklin.
29. Reading – even browsing – an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. – James Gleick.
30. Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. – Jean Rhys.
31. “Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.” – Voltaire
32. Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. – Jim Rohn.
33. What a blessing it is to love books. – Elizabeth von Arnim.
34. There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all. – Jacqueline Kennedy.

Motivational Reading Books Quotes

35. A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. – William Styron.
36. “Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or a duty. It should be offered as a gift.” – Kate DiCamillo.
37. 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.
38. “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” – Harper Lee.
39. “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.” – Lemony Snicket.
40. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. – Mark Twain reading quote.
41. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” – S. Lewis.
42. “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” – Groucho Marx.
43. “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” – Joseph Brodsky.
44. “‘Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read.” – Mark Twain.
45. “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw (Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist)
46. “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” – Ray Bradbury.
47. “How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.” – Henry David Thoreau.
48. “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.
49. “Think before you speak. Read before you think.” – Fran Lebowitz.
50. “That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.” – Jhumpa Lahiri.
51. “The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” –
52. “I guess there are never enough books.” – John Steinbeck (American author and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner).
53. “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.
54. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Seuss quote about reading.
55. “Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.” – Malorie Blackman.
56. “The world was hers for the reading.” – Betty Smith.
57. “Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.” – Holbrook Jackson.

Inspirational Quotes About Reading and Books

58. “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King.
59. “Reading is important. If you know how to read, then the whole world opens up to you.” – Barack Obama.
60. “You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child.” – Anita Merina.
61. “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.” – Scott Fitzgerald
62. “We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: We need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.” – Philip Pullman
63. “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.
64. “Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.” – Malorie Blackman.
65. A house without books is like a room without windows. —Horace Mann.
66. “Books may well be the only true magic.” – Alice Hoffman.
67. “Books break the shackles of time – proof that humans can work magic.” – Carl Sagan.
68. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” – Margaret Fuller.
69. “A word after a word after a word is power.” – Margaret Atwood.
70. “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.
71. “Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.” – Napoleon Bonaparte.
72. “Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.” – Henry Ward Beecher.
73. A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. – Charles Baudelaire.
74. “The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” – Descartes.
75. “When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.” — Chloe Thurlow.
76. “To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind.” — Geraldine Brooks.
77. “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.

Funny Reading Quotes

78. “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.” – Diane Duane.
79. If anyone needs me, I’ll be reading. Please don’t need me. – bookandink.com.
80. If my book is open, your mouth should be closed.
81. Anyone who has time to clean, is not reading nearly enough.
82. Just in case things get boring, I’m bringing a book. – abookwormthing//tumblr.
83. I was the kid who got in trouble for reading past her bedtime and for reading when the teacher was talking.
84. I enjoy long, romantic walks through the bookstore… -@ lilyslibrary.
85. People who say that I’m hard to shop for must not know where to buy books.
86. “Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.” – Bill Watterson.
87. If you’re going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it. – Oprah Winfrey.
88. When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read as the world crashes down on you. – Lemony Snicket.
89. Bookworm problem: Laughing out loud while reading a book in public place and getting funny looks from the other people.
90. The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
91. “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.
92. “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” – Groucho Marx.
93. Wear the old coat and buy the new book. —Austin Phelps.
94. Apparently, reading during lunch and ignoring others is considered “rude”.
95. A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked and could only have one book, what would it be? I always say, “How to Build a Boat.” —Stephen Wright.

Importance of Reading Quotes (Power of Reading Quotes)

96. Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his needs, is good for him. —Maya Angelou
97. A book is a gift you can open again and again. —Garrison Keillor.
98. Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. —P. Whipple.
99. Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. —Frederick Douglass.
100. Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. —Kofi Annan.
101. Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. —Emilie Buchwald.
102. “Reading brings us unknown friends” – Honoré de Balzac.
103. I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. —Jorge Luis Borges.
104. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. —I. Hayakawa.
105. I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. —Anna Quindlen.
106. Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. —Kathleen Norris.
107. Let us read and let us dance—two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. —
108. Comics are a gateway drug to literacy. —Art Spiegelman.
109. “From the reading of ‘good books’ there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way.” – Gordon B. Hinckley.
110. I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp. —JK Rowling.
111. He that loves reading has everything within his reach. —William Godwin.
112. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. —Richard Steele.
113. A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time—proof that humans can work magic. —Carl Sagan.
114. One of the greatest gifts adults can give—to their offspring and to their society—is to read to children. —Carl Sagan.
115. “Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.” – Lena Dunham.
116. “These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.” – Roald Dahl.

Reading Quotes For kids

1. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go.”— Dr. Seuss, “I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!”
2. “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” – Walt Disney
3. “There are worse crimes than burning books.  One of them is not reading them.” – Ray Bradbury
4. “Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” – Edmund Burke
5. “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” – Descartes
6. “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” – Richard Steele”
7. “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, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
8. “Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”  – Mary Schmich
9. “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” — Frederick Douglass
10. “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King
11. “No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. — Lady Montagu
12. “To learn to read is to light a fire” — Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
13. “You can find magic wherever you look.  Sit back and relax all you need is a book!” – Dr. Seuss
14. “Books train your mind to imagination to think big – Taylor Swift
15. “If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.” – Roald Dahl
16. “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body – Joseph Addison
17. “The whole world opened up to me when I learned to read” – Mary McCleod Bethun
18. “I find television very educating.  Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” – Groucho Marx
19. “There are many little ways to enlarge your world.  Love of books is the best of all.” – Jacqueline Kennedy
20. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” – Margaret Fuller