Best Quotes About Reading

Books are a uniquely portable magic. Stephen King

It is what you read when you don't have to, that determines what you will be, when you can't help it. Oscar Wilde

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. Frederick Douglass

A room without books is like a body without a soul. Cicero

Books are the mirrors of the soul. Virginia Woolf

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. Groucho Marx

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life. Stephen King

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are. Mason Cooley

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. Elizabeth Hardwick

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. Walter Cronkite

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book. Dr. Seuss

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.  Margaret Fuller

Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit and escape into the pages of a book. Jennifer Howard

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. Logan Pearsall Smith

I cannot remember the books I've read, any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. Ralph Waldo Emerson

A book is a device to ignite the imagination. Alan Bennett

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

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. Mark Haddon

The art of reading is, in great part, that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book. André Maurois

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Joseph Addison

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, 'Oh, the book is better.' Paulo Coelho

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. Walt Disney

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

We read to know we're not alone. William Nicholson

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. Victor Hugo

Reading is a way to gain knowledge, but it's also a way to escape reality. Unknown

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.  Dr. Seuss

There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read. Mark Twain

Reading is a discount ticket to anywhere. Mary Schmich

I declare after all, there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything, than of a book! Jane Austen

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands. Neil Gaiman

One of the great things about books, is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures. George W. Bush

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. Charles Baudelaire

Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills. Hugh Mackay

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. Mortimer J. Adler

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make a book. Samuel Johnson

The book you don't read, won't help. Jim Rohn

Reading is a way for me to escape my own life and enter someone else's for a little while. Unknown

There is no friend as loyal as a book. Ernest Hemingway

Reading is a bridge between the past and the future. Unknown

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Henry David Thoreau

Reading brings us unknown friends. Honoré de Balzac

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. May Ellen Chase

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. Rene Descartes

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. Jane Austen

Reading is a way for me to expand my mind, open my eyes, and fill up my heart. Oprah Winfrey

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies. Andre Maurois

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think. Harper Lee

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. C.S. Lewis

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. Anna Quindlen

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. Martin Farquhar Tupper

A book is a gift you can open again and again. Garrison Keillor

The person who deserves most pity, is a lonesome one, on a rainy day, who doesn't know how to read. Ben Franklin

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

The best books are the ones that make you feel something. Unknown

Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. Hazel Rochman

A good book is an event in my life. Stendhal

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads, lives only one. George R.R. Martin