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Reading has a way of opening up new thoughts, ideas and even worlds to us. Just getting lost in a good book on a Sunday afternoon is one of the best simple pleasures in life. So in today\u2019s post I want to focus on that and share 105 of the most powerful, inspirational and thought-provoking quotes about reading. I hope you\u2019ll find something here that will inspire you to pick up your next great read and that you can share with fellow booklovers in your life.

Powerful and Famous Quotes About Reading<\/h2> \u201cA reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.\u201d
\u2013 George R.R. Martin \u201cBooks are the mirrors of the soul.\u201d
\u2013 Virginia Woolf \u201cThe reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest people of the past centuries.\u201d
\u2013 Ren\u00e9 Descartes \u201cThe man who doesn\u2019t read good books has no advantage over the man who can\u2019t read them.\u201d
\u2013 Mark Twain \u201cYou 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.\u201d
\u2013 James Baldwin \u201cA room without books is like a body without a soul.\u201d
\u2013 Cicero \u201cThere is no friend as loyal as a book.\u201d
\u2013 Ernest Hemingway \u201cUntil I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.\u201d
\u2013 Harper Lee \u201cThere is more treasure in books than in all the pirate\u2019s loot on Treasure Island.\u201d
\u2013 Walt Disney \u201cTo learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.\u201d
\u2013 Victor Hugo \u201cSome books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.\u201d
\u2013 Francis Bacon \u201cMy alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.\u201d
\u2013 Malcolm X \u201cIf you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.\u201d
\u2013 Haruki Murakami \u201cOnce you learn to read, you will be forever free.\u201d
\u2013 Frederick Douglass \u201cI have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.\u201d
\u2013 Jorge Luis Borges \u201cIf one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.\u201d
\u2013 Oscar Wilde \u201cEither write something worth reading or do something worth writing.\u201d
\u2013 Benjamin Franklin \u201cA well-read woman is a dangerous creature.\u201d
\u2013 Lisa Kleypas \u201cI 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.\u201d
\u2013 Jane Austen \u201cThere are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.\u201d
\u2013 Joseph Brodsky

Inspirational Quotes About Reading That Will Make You Think<\/h2> \u201cReading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.\u201d
\u2013 Mason Cooley \u201cMaybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.\u201d
\u2013 Alberto Manguel \u201cReading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author\u2019s words reverberating in your head.\u201d
\u2013 Paul Auster \u201cOne of the many gifts that books give readers is a connection to each other. When we share an affection for a writer, an author, or a story, we also have a better understanding of people unlike ourselves. Books cultivate empathy.\u201d
\u2013 Sarah Jessica Parker \u201cThat is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you\u2019re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.\u201d
\u2013 F. Scott Fitzgerald \u201cBooks are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.\u201d
\u2013 Anna Quindlen \u201cWhenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.\u201d
\u2013 Vera Nazarian \u201cWe read to know we are not alone.\u201d
\u2013 C.S. Lewis \u201cReading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another\u2019s skin, another\u2019s voice, another\u2019s soul.\u201d
\u2013 Joyce Carol Oates \u201cIt is what you read when you don\u2019t have to that determines what you will be when you can\u2019t help it.\u201d
\u2013 Oscar Wilde \u201cReading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it\u2019s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it\u2019s a way of making contact with someone else\u2019s imagination after a day that\u2019s all too real.\u201d
\u2013 Nora Ephron \u201cBooks can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled \u2018This could change your life.’\u201d
\u2013 Helen Exley \u201cIn 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.\u201d
\u2013 Mortimer J. Adler \u201cNo one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.\u201d
\u2013 Romain Rolland \u201cA word after a word after a word is power.\u201d
\u2013 Margaret Atwood \u201cReading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.\u201d
\u2013 Marcel Proust \u201cWriting is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.\u201d
\u2013 Carl Sagan \u201cEverything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.\u201d
\u2013 St\u00e9phane Mallarm\u00e9 \u201cI\u2019ve always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds.\u201d
\u2013 Taylor Jenkins Reid \u201cBooks are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.\u201d
\u2013 Toni Morrison \u201cReading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.\u201d
\u2013 John Locke

Quotes About the Importance of Reading Books<\/h2> \u201cMany times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.\u201d
\u2013 Ralph Waldo Emerson \u201cEducation is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.\u201d
\u2013 Nelson Mandela \u201cThe quality of your thoughts is determined by the quality of your reading.\u201d
\u2013 James Clear \u201cBooks are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.\u201d
\u2013 Barbara W. Tuchman \u201cBooks are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.\u201d
\u2013 Charles W. Eliot \u201cReading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.\u201d
\u2013 Joseph Addison \u201cNo matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.\u201d
\u2013 Confucius \u201cI have challenged myself that I will read thousands of books and I will empower myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.\u201d
\u2013 Malala Yousafzai \u201cReading is an act of civilization; it\u2019s one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.\u201d
\u2013 Ben Okri \u201cWhat I love most about reading: It gives you the ability to reach higher ground. And keep climbing.\u201d
\u2013 Oprah \u201cIf we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.\u201d
\u2013 Ralph Waldo Emerson \u201cYou will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.\u201d
\u2013 Paul Rand \u201cThe reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.\u201d
\u2013 Eleanor Roosevelt \u201cI\u2019m reading so much and exposing myself to so many new ideas. It almost feels like the chemistry and the structure of my brain is changing so rapidly sometimes.\u201d
\u2013 Emma Watson \u201cBooks are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people \u2014 people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.\u201d
\u2013 E.B. White \u201cI can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.\u201d
\u2013 Benedict Cumberbatch \u201cIn my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn\u2019t read all the time \u2013 none, zero.\u201d
\u2013 Charlie Munger \u201cReading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.\u201d
\u2013 Albert Einstein \u201cTo acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.\u201d
\u2013 W. Somerset Maugham \u201cI cannot remember the books I\u2019ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.\u201d
\u2013 Ralph Waldo Emerson \u201cAll of the smartest people I\u2019ve met, regardless of where they received their formal education, were mostly self-taught, incredibly curious, and voracious readers.\u201d
\u2013 Jim O\u2019Shaughnessy

Quotes About Reading for Kids<\/h2> \u201cThe more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you\u2019ll go.\u201d
\u2013 Dr. Seuss \u201cI wouldn\u2019t be a songwriter if it wasn\u2019t for books that I loved as a kid. I think that when you can escape into a book it trains your imagination to think big and to think that more can exist than what you see.\u201d
\u2013 Taylor Swift \u201cA childhood without books \u2013 that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.\u201d
\u2013 Astrid Lindgren \u201cToday a reader, tomorrow a leader.\u201d
\u2013 Margaret Fuller \u201cThere are many little ways to enlarge your child\u2019s world. Love of books is the best of all.\u201d
\u2013 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis \u201cFairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey.\u201d
\u2013 G.K. Chesterton \u201cShow me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.\u201d
\u2013 Napol\u00e9on Bonaparte \u201cReading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible.\u201d
\u2013 Barack Obama \u201cI have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn\u2019t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting, and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.\u201d
\u2013 Roald Dahl \u201cAny book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.\u201d
\u2013 Maya Angelou \u201cNot all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.\u201d
\u2013 Harry Truman \u201cLet children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them.\u201d
\u2013 Judy Blume \u201cA children\u2019s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children\u2019s story in the slightest.\u201d
\u2013 C.S. Lewis \u201cIf 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.\u201d
\u2013 Maya Angelou \u201cA child who carries a book with a bookmark in it is in two places at the same time.\u201d
\u2013 Tony Abbott \u201cMake it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.\u201d
\u2013 George Bernard Shaw \u201cChildren are made readers on the laps of their parents.\u201d
\u2013 Emilie Buchwald \u201cYou have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.\u201d
\u2013 Madeleine L\u2019Engle \u201cReading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.\u201d
\u2013 Kate DiCamillo \u201cThese books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.\u201d
\u2013 Roald Dahl \u201cA child with a library card holds a lot of power over her life and her future.\u201d
\u2013 Joy Stevens \u201cEducation is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.\u201d
\u2013 Malcolm X

Short Quotes About Reading<\/h2> \u201cNo two persons ever read the same book.\u201d
\u2013 Edmund Wilson \u201cA good book has no ending.\u201d
\u2013 R.D. Cumming \u201cA writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.\u201d
\u2013 Samuel Johnson \u201cBooks are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.\u201d
\u2013 Carlos Ruiz Zaf\u00f3n \u201cA book is a gift you can open again and again.\u201d
\u2013 Garrison Keillor \u201cThink before you speak. Read before you think.\u201d
\u2013 Fran Lebowitz \u201cSome books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.\u201d
\u2013 Louisa May Alcott \u201cIf a book is well written, I always find it too short.\u201d
\u2013 Jane Austen \u201cI guess there are never enough books.\u201d
\u2013 John Steinbeck \u201cLiterature is my utopia.\u201d
\u2013 Helen Keller \u201cIf you don\u2019t like to read, you haven\u2019t found the right book.\u201d
\u2013 J.K. Rowling \u201cYou can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.\u201d
\u2013 C.S. Lewis \u201cReading is a discount ticket to everywhere.\u201d
\u2013 Mary Schmich \u201cI read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.\u201d
\u2013 Margaret Atwood \u201cA good book is an event in my life.\u201d
\u2013 Stendhal \u201cReading one book is like eating one potato chip.\u201d
\u2013 Diane Duane \u201cA half-read book is a half-finished love affair.\u201d
\u2013 David Mitchell \u201cNo entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.\u201d
\u2013 Lady M.W. Montagu \u201cReading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.\u201d
\u2013 Mark Haddon \u201cI can survive well enough on my own \u2013 if given the proper reading material.\u201d
\u2013 Sarah J. Maas \u201cBooks and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.\u201d
\u2013 Jeanette Winterson Want more inspiration and thought-provoking sayings?<\/strong> Then have a look at these deep and powerful quotes<\/a>, this one with quotes that hit hard<\/a> and also this post with the best words of wisdom ever about life<\/a>. <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n \n \n

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