Posted by Reading and collecting interesting reading quotes is what I do. It took me a few years to put together this list of 100 of my favourite quotes. I started collecting them as a means of helping myself to rediscover the love of reading after taking a break of almost 15 years from reading anything that wasn’t compulsory. As you probably know, forming good habits is tough, takes lots of hardwork and perseverence. The following powerful quotes helped me to stay motivated, recreate the habit of reading and read more books. I hope they will help you too, if you are on a journey to discover the love of reading books. Remember to tweet anything you find interesting.
100 quotes about reading books
- “Read obsessively. It will make you a better human and a better writer.” ― Pittacus Lore Click To Tweet
- “My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn’t have any excuse to be stupid.” ― Joan Bauer
- “A child who reads will be an adult who thinks.” – author unknown
- “If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” ― J.K. Rowling
- “To become smart you need to read just ten books, but to find those ten, you need to read thousands.” – unknown
- “Parents should leave books lying around marked ‘forbidden’ if they want their children to read.” – Doris Lessing
- “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.” – Stephen King
- “Some women have a weakness for shoes. I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” – Confucius
- “If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.” – Roald Dahl
- “Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.” – Spanish Proverb
- “The best cinema in the world is the brain, and you know it when you read a good book.” – Ridley Scott
- “Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.” -William Feather
- “Any 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.” -Maya Angelou
- “The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.” – David Bailey
- “There is no pleasure so cheap, so innocent, and so remunerative as the real, hearty pleasure and taste for reading.” – Robert Lowe
- “Reading in bed jumpstarts dreams.” ~Terri Guillemets
- “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Cicero
- “A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
- “We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.” ― John Lubbock
- “I love books because I don’t have to wait for the commercials to be over to find out what happens.” – unknown
- “I was born with a reading list I will never finish.” – Maud Casey
- “Book lovers never go to bed alone.” ~ unknown
- “Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.” – Emilie Buchwald
- “I love the way that each book—any book—is its own journey. You open it, and off you go….” ― Sharon Creech
- “Seeing someone reading a book you love is seeing a book recommending a person.” ― Anonymous
- “Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.” ~Henry Ward Beecher
- “Books are the training weights of the mind” –Seneca
- “Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.” ~James R. Lowell
- “Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.” — Vladimir Nabokov
- “Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.” – Jim Rohn
- “Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.” ~ Holbrook Jackson
- “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
- “You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.” – Dr. Seuss
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“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 should go where they will be most appreciated and not sit unread…”― Christopher Paolini
- “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” – Margaret Fuller
- “No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.” ~Ann Landers
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“I enjoy sharing my books as I do my friends, asking only that you treat them well and see them safely home.” -Ernest Morgan
- “Reading and thinking breeds limitless progress.” ― Auliq-Ice
- “I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.” – Eudora Welty
- “Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life… to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you are borrowing from a friend.” – Dave Kellet
- “If we didn’t have libraries, many people thirsty for knowledge would dehydrate.” — Megan Jo Tetrick, age 12
- “You are not done with a book until you pass it to another reader.” – Donalyn Miller
- “Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.” – Paxton Hood
- “Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.” – Mortimer J. Adler
- “Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.” —Tomie dePaola
- “To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.” – Chinese saying
- “People who hate to read scare me. Good books have kept me alive.” – Unknown
- “Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.” – Charlaine Harris
- “Reading is a way for me to expand my mind, open my eyes, and fill up my heart.” – Oprah
- “The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.” – James Bryce
- “Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.” – Unknown
- “When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life.” – Christopher Morley
- “What is reading but silent conversation?” – Walter Savage Landor
- “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read.” – Mark Twain
- “The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense.” – J.A. Langford
- “Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.” – Hazel Rochman
- “Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.” – Joseph Addison
- “Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” – Mary Schmich
- “There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.” — Flannery O’Connor
- “No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest.” – J.A. Langford
- “I’ve never known any trouble that an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.”– Charles de Secondat
- “Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.” – Augustine Birrell
- “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.” – Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)
- “Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.” – Samuel Butler, writer (1835-1902)
- “You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.” –Dr. Seuss
- “A true friend is like a good book, the inside is better than the cover.” ― Anonymous
- “You’re never alone when you’re reading a book.” ― Susan Wiggs
- “He that loves reading has everything within his reach.” — William Godwin
- “It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can.” – Jane Hamilton
- There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” -Walt Disney
- “Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.” — Louisa May Alcott
- “You can travel the world and never leave your chair when you read a book.” ~ Sherry K. Plummer
- “Every book is a children’s book if the kid can read!” – Mitch Hedberg
- “I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think interior decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.” – Anna Quindlen
- “A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.” ― Gabrielle Dubois
- “The problem with books is that they end.” ― Caroline Kepnes
- “It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little.” – Denis Parsons Burkitt
- “You’re the same today as you’ll be in five years except for the people you meet and the books you read.” – Charlie “Tremendous” Jones
- “Reading brings us unknown friends” ― Honoré de Balzac
- “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.” ― C.S. Lewis
- “What makes a good book? Simply put, a good book is one that you enjoy reading.” ― Carmela Dutra
- “Don’t buy books for your shelf, buy them for yourself.” ― Saji Ijiyemi
- “When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.” – Jules Renard
- “Wear the old coat and buy the new book.” —Austin Phelps
- “Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.” —Kathleen Norris
- “I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.” —Jorge Luis Borges
- “My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.” –Abraham Lincoln
- “A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.” – Martin Tupper
- “Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.” — Kin Hubbard
- “Books had instant replay long before televised sports.” – Bern Williams
- “There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.” —Frank Serafini
- “Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.” – Henry Ward Beecher
- “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
- “It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.”- Katherine Paterson
- “When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.” – Desiderius Erasmus
- “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
- “I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.” – Gary Paulsen
I hope you enjoyed this long list of quotes about reading. I know it takes time to go through the list and not everyone has enough time to do that. If you would like to receive a quote a day to stay motivated to continue reading, leave a comment below or use the contact form to contact me so that I can add you to the list of book lovers who love receiving quotes in daily bite-size chunks to avoid quote overload.
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