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I love to collect quotes and I love to read. Quotes inspire and motivate. A lot of people love to read quotes daily. Quotes can be on a range of topics.
Reading is a good habit and I also have a habit of highlighting quote-worthy lines from every book I read. And I am never disappointed because I always manage to find at least a couple inspiring or deeply-touching quoted from every book I read. So over the years as my reading habit has grown so has my collection of quotes. Enough for me to categorize them and present them to you in the best way possible.
Some of these quotes are also ones that I have come across on the World Wide Web of the Internet and on Goodreads while perusing. Some of the quotes are not from books but are nevertheless good quotes about reading in general as a habit said by powerful people.
So here’s a list of 39 best quotes about reading books and reading as a habit.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“The more you read, the less you sound foolish when you speak.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
“No one with a book is ever alone, even in the darkest moments.”
― Rachel Caine, Ash and Quill
“This is what I want for my students, to lose and find themselves in books.”
― Donalyn Miller, The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”
― Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!
“Books are the essence of life. And there is nothing like a good story to pass the time.”
― Victoria Hislop, Cartes Postales from Greece
“Young people should be careful in their reading, as old people in eating their food. They should not eat too much. They should chew it well.”
― Winston S. Churchill, Painting as a Pastime
“Don't you wish you could live inside a book sometimes?" "All the time.”
― Deb Caletti, The Secrets She Keeps
“I knew right there in prison that reading had forever changed the course of my life.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“Reading is the ultimate meta-skill that can be traded for anything else.”
― Naval Ravikant
“Reading is not optional.”
― Walter Dean Myers
“Writing does not exist unless there is someone to read it, and each reader will take something different from a novel, from a chapter, from a line.”
― Claire Fuller, Swimming Lessons
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
“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, The Brooklyn Follies
“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” ― Margaret Fuller
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. - Mark Haddon
“Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
“A person should read a book because it speaks to something in his heart.”
― Julia Quinn, The Other Miss Bridgerton
“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
“If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.” – Roald Dahl
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire
“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.”
“One reads to leave home, to go on a journey.”
― Marty Rubin
“You are not done with a book until you pass it to another reader.” – Donalyn Miller
“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.” – Mortimer J. Adler
“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.” – Mary Wortley Montagu
“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” – W. Somerset Maugham
“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.” – Diane Duane
“Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.” —Tomie dePaola
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” – Fran Lebowitz
Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces your to strectch your own - Charles Scribner. Jr. |
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. —Richard Steele |
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” – John Locke
“Reading brings us unknown friends” – Honoré Balzac
“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.” – Lisa See
“He that loves reading has everything within his reach.” – William Godwin
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. - Annie Dillard
“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg
“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
“I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.”
― Patrick Rothfuss
“Reading is probably another way of being in a place.”
― José Saramago, El hombre duplicado
Although long I hope you found some quotes that inspired you to read and read more.
Please feel free to add your favorite quotes in the comments below. If I love it I will add it to this list. Thank you.
Happy Reading!
Sources : Various Books and Goodreads
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