27 Best Reading Quotes To Read More And More

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Are you looking for some reading motivation quotes? Stay motivated with the help of the below inspiring learning and reading quotes.

Best Quotes For Reading

1. “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” ― Oscar Wilde

2. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” ― Dr. Seuss

3. “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ― Ray Bradbury

4. “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

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5. “Reading brings us unknown friends” ― Honore de Balzac

6. “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

7. “What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!” ― Thomas Babington Macaulay

8. “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” ― Robert Frost

9. “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.” ― Voltaire

10. “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.” ― Sir Francis Bacon

11. “Think before you speak. Read before you think.” ― Fran Lebowitz

12. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” ― George R.R. Martin

13. “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

14. “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

15. “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” ― Mortimer J. Adler

16. “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.” ― Aldous Huxley

17. “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.” ― Diane Duane

18. “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

19. “Reading is escaped, 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

20. “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” ― John Locke

21. “A word after a word after a word is power.” ― Margaret Atwood

22. “Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.” ― Roberto Bolaño

23. “A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.” ― Walter Mosley

24. “Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape — I didn’t read to learn, I was reading to read.” ― Christian Bauman

25. “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

26. “No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don’t read is often as important as what you do read.” ― Lemony Snicket

27. “If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” ― J.K Rowling

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