Memorable Quotes About Reading

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"Books may well be the only true magic."
Alice Hoffman
"A good book is an event in my life."
Barack Obama
"I cannot live without books."
Thomas Jefferson
"Reading is an adventure that never ends."
Anonymous
"Reading is not just a hobby, it's a way of life."
Anonymous
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"I think books are like people, in a way. They show their true colors when you take them off the shelf."
Anonymous
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"Libraries will get you through anything."
Ray Bradbury
"What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, a seat at the fire, a corner in the wilderness."
Annie Dillard
"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of life's miseries."
W. Somerset Maugham
"Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind."
James Russell Lowell
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."
Frederick Douglass
"Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift."
Kate DiCamillo
"There’s no better place for a book than a person’s heart."
Anonymous
"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."
Margaret Fuller
"Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own."
Charles Scribner Jr.
"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
"The best advice I ever got was from my father. He said, 'Surround yourself with books’."
Barbara Bush
"Reading can take you places you have never been before."
Anonymous
"One of the greatest gifts is a passion for reading."
Elizabeth Hardwick
"Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled 'This could change your life.'"
Helen Exley
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"Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope."
Kofi Annan
"Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life."
Mortimer J. Adler
"Books allow you to travel without moving your feet."
Jhumpa Lahiri
"Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible."
Barack Obama
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go."
Dr. Seuss
"To read is to enter a world where anything is possible."
Anonymous
"We read to know we’re not alone."
C.S. Lewis
"In my books, I would freely present the things that I saw in life as a reflection of reality."
Haruki Murakami
"Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well."
Mark Haddon
"Books are the training weights of the mind."
Epictetus
"The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library."
Albert Einstein
"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading."
William Styron
"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."
Fernando Pessoa
"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
Mark Twain
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"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."
George Orwell
"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. Books are the most singular things on earth."
Carl Sagan
"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."
Mark Twain
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one."
George R.R. Martin
"The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library."
Albert Einstein
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to be happy."
C.S. Lewis
"Reading is a means of thinking with another person’s mind; it forces you to stretch your own."
Charles Scribner Jr.
"There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all."
Jacqueline Kennedy
"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."
Henry David Thoreau
"Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary."
Jim Rohn
"I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book."
J.K. Rowling
"What you read when you don’t have to determines what you will be when you can’t help it."
Oscar Wilde
"There is no such thing as an ugly book."
Joseph Brodsky
"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
Edmund Burke
"A great book is a friend that never disappoints."
Anonymous
"Reading brings us unknown friends."
Honore de Balzac
"We read to know we are not alone."
C.S. Lewis
"Reading allows us to tell our own stories."
David A. Adler
"In my opinion, one of the most important parts of reading is that way we can escape our lives and dive into a new world."
Bestselling Author
"A reader's imagination is more powerful than any artist's brush."
Anonymous
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Books are a uniquely portable magic."
Stephen King
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
Joseph Addison
"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
Ernest Hemingway
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
Jorge Luis Borges
"The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library."
Albert Einstein
"So many books, so little time."
Frank Zappa
"A book is a dream that you hold in your hand."
Neil Gaiman
"Books are the mirrors of the soul."
Virginia Woolf
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
Mark Twain
"Reading is a form of escape from reality."
Anonymous
"A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading."
William Styron
"If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book."
J.K. Rowling
"There is no such thing as a bad book, only a wrong reader."
Anonymous
"I read a book one day and my whole life was changed."
Orhan Pamuk
"A book is a gift you can open again and again."
Garrison Keillor
"Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are."
Mason Cooley
"Books are the treasure that we can own without losing our freedom."
Anonymous
"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The greatest gift is a passion for reading."
Elizabeth Hardwick
"Reading is a journey, not a destination."
Anonymous
"To read is to voyage through time."
Carl Sagan
"Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can."
William Feather
"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
Haruki Murakami
"The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading."
David Bailey
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
Dr. Seuss
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