Memorable Quotes About Reading Books

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"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
"The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."
René Descartes
"The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
Dr. Seuss
"I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once."
C.S. Lewis
"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
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one."
George R.R. Martin
"So many books, so little time."
Frank Zappa
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"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
Haruki Murakami
"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
"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
Mark Twain
"The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read."
Benjamin Franklin
"Reading brings us unknown friends."
Honoré de Balzac
"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."
Joseph Brodsky
"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude."
Marcel Proust
"In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."
Mortimer J. Adler
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
C.S. Lewis
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
Cicero
"Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary."
Jim Rohn
"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home."
Anna Quindlen
"There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all."
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."
Mark Twain
"Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled 'This could change your life'."
Helen Exley
"Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life."
Joseph Addison
"Books may well be the only true magic."
Alice Hoffman
"The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read."
Benjamin Franklin
"A good book is an event in my life."
Stendhal
"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
"One must always be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."
Cassandra Clare
"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."
Margaret Fuller
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
Groucho Marx
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
Mark Twain
"Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled 'This could change your life.'"
Helen Exley
"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."
René Descartes
"One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."
Cassandra Clare
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"Books are the mirrors of the soul."
Virginia Woolf
"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."
Henry David Thoreau
"Reading one book is like eating one potato chip."
Diane Duane
"I cannot live without books."
Thomas Jefferson
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
Dr. Seuss
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one."
George R.R. Martin
"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
Ernest Hemingway
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
Joseph Addison
"You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book."
Dr. Seuss
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."
Frederick Douglass
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
Jane Austen
"Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are."
Mason Cooley
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
Jorge Luis Borges
"I can survive well enough on my own — if given the proper reading material."
Sarah J. Maas
"Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well."
Mark Haddon
"The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library."
Albert Einstein
"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all."
Jackie Kennedy
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
Mark Twain
"Books are a uniquely portable magic."
Stephen King
"Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere."
Mary Schmich
"You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
Ray Bradbury
"We read to know we are not alone."
C.S. Lewis
"A book is a dream that you hold in your hand."
Neil Gaiman
"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."
Victor Hugo
"There is no substitute for books in the life of a child."
May Ellen Chase
"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 William Eliot
"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
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