Many of us have special memories of the books that have inspired us, and have learned the profound effect that reading the right book can have at the right moment. If you’re short on time, reading some quotes about books is the next best thing.
Though many of us live busy lives, it’s important to find the time to read. Research has shown that reading books is good for your physical and mental health.
If you’re here, I’m guessing you’re fond of books, the reading life, and especially reading quotes. Maybe you’re a teacher who wants to cover your walls with short quotes about the importance of reading. Or, a reader looking for inspiration for reading quotes to cover your walls in. Out there in the real world, it’s sometimes hard to find others who love reading (after all, we’re all at home, reading and gazing admiringly at our books). If you need a little reminder that there are many of us who love reading and know why it’s so important (and the Book Riot Insiders, these quotes about books, or these bookish words, aren’t enough), here are twenty-two more short quotes about reading and the reading life.
Reading For Pleasure Quotes
(1)
"Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him…"📖📝📘
-John Locke
(2)
“Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write."📖📝📘
– Annie Proulx
(3)
"The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them…"📖📝📘
-Mark Twain
(4)
“My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”📖📝📘
– Malcolm X
(5)
"The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading…"📖📝📘
-David Bailey
(6)
“Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.”📖📝📘
– Jean Rhys
(7)
"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light…"📖📝📘
-Vera Nazarian
(8)
“Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.”📖📝📘
– Malorie Blackman
(9)
"A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others…"📖📝📘
-Abraham Lincoln
(10)
“We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind.”📖📝📘
– Anna Quindlen
Reading Quotes For Babies
(11)
"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms…"📖📝📘
-Angela Carter
(12)
“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”📖📝📘
– Napoleon Bonaparte
(13)
"Reading, 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…"📖📝📘
-Albert Einstein
(14)
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”📖📝📘
– Henry David Thoreau
(15)
"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours…"📖📝📘
-John Locke
(16)
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”📖📝📘
– Harper Lee
(17)
"You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them…"📖📝📘
-Ray Bradbury
(18)
“Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.”📖📝📘
– Jorge Luis Borges
(19)
"A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people…"📖📝📘
-Will Rogers
(20)
“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
Reading Quotes For Parents
(21)
"There habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade…"📖📝📘
-Anthony Trollope
(22)
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”📖📝📘
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
(23)
"No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance…"📖📝📘
-Confucius
(24)
“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
(25)
"To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries."📖📝📘
-A C Grayling
(26)
“Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.”📖📝📘
– Kate DiCamillo
(27)
"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."📖📝📘
-Abraham Lincoln
(28)
“I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.”📖📝📘
– Roald Dahl
(29)
"A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others."📖📝📘
-Abraham Lincoln
(30)
“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
Reading Is Power Quotes
(31)
"The more you read, the more you learn, the more you learn, the smarter you are." 📖📝📘
-Dr T.P.Chia
(32)
“Reading—even browsing—an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search.”📖📝📘
–James Gleick
(33)
"The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think."📖📝📘
-Harper Lee
(34)
“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”📖📝📘
–Virginia Woolf
(35)
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one."📖📝📘
-George R.R. Martin
(36)
“Salvation is certainly among the reasons I read. Reading and writing have always pulled me out of the darkest experiences in my life. Stories have given me a place in which to lose myself. They have allowed me to remember. They have allowed me to forget. They have allowed me to imagine different endings and better possible worlds.”📖📝📘
– Roxane Gay
(37)
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go."📖📝📘
-Dr. Seuss
(38)
“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
(39)
"The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can't."📖📝📘
-Mark Twain
(40)
“The best moments in reading are when you come across something a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”📖📝📘
– Alan Bennett, The History Boys
Reading Aloud Quotes
(41)
"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."📖📝📘
-Oscar Wilde
(42)
“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
(43)
"Reading 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's words reverberating in your head."📖📝📘
-Paul Auster
(44)
“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”📖📝📘
–Sir Francis Bacon
(45)
"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
(46)
“You 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.”📖📝📘
–James Baldwin
(47)
"Keep reading books, but remember that a book's only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself. "📖📝📘
-Maxim Gorky
(48)
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”📖📝📘
– Voltaire
(49)
"A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight."📖📝📘
-Charles de Montesquie
(50)
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”📖📝📘
– Stephen King
Reading Is Fun Quotes
(51)
"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him, and travel in his company."📖📝📘
-Andre Gride
(52)
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”📖📝📘
– Robert Frost
(53)
"Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy."📖📝📘
-Brad Henry
(54)
“Reading 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’s words reverberating in your head.”📖📝📘
–Paul Auster
(55)
"Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere."📖📝📘
-Jean Rhys
(56)
“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
(57)
"Those who have trouble reading are those who have trouble moving ahead in the appreciation of all that life has to offer."📖📝📘
-Byron Pulsifer
(58)
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”📖📝📘
–John Locke
(59)
"Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you."📖📝📘
-Robin Sharma
(60)
“Read, read, read. Read everything trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.”📖📝📘
– William Faulkner
Reading Quotes For Teachers
(61)
"The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts."📖📝📘
-Rene Descartes
(62)
“Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape. I didn’t read to learn, I was reading to read.”📖📝📘
– Christian Bauman
(63)
"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."📖📝📘
-Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
(64)
“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real.”📖📝📘
–Nora Ephron
(65)
"The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age."📖📝📘
-Benjamin Disraeli
(66)
“Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.”📖📝📘
– Lena Dunham
(67)
"The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade."📖📝📘
-Anthony Trollope
(68)
“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
(69)
“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.”📖📝📘
–Ezra Pound
(70)
“I couldn’t live a week without a private library indeed, I’d part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I’d let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.”📖📝📘
–H.P. Lovecraft
Reading Is Fundamental Quotes
(71)
“Think of this that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.”📖📝📘
–A.S. Byatt, Possession
(72)
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”📖📝📘
–Oscar Wilde
(73)
“Reading is my favorite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.”📖📝📘
–Anne Brontë
(74)
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing 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, Pride and Prejudice
(75)
“I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can’t really put a book on the Internet.”📖📝📘
–Ray Bradbury, Farenheit 451
(76)
“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
(77)
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”📖📝📘
–Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
(78)
“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”📖📝📘
–Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
(79)
“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, Horseradish
(80)
“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.”📖📝📘
–John Berger, Keeping a Rendezvous
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