Who doesn’t like to get lost in a book? Reading not only opens doors and inspires, it also serves as a timeless education for many. Using quotes about reading in your classroom can encourage students to start a new book series or learn something new. Check out this list of 50 of our favorite quotes about reading!
Our favorite quotes about reading
“Don’t trust anyone who hasn’t brought a book.” -Lemony Snicket
“Reading is essential for those who want to rise above the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” – Fran Lebowitz
“A good book is not about seeing how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.” – Mortimer J. Adler
“The more you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you will visit.” -DR. seuss
“Reading a book is like eating a potato chip.” – Diane Duane
“Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.” – Malorie Blackman
“Books are a uniquely wearable magic.” -Stephen King
“Reading brings us unknown friends” – Honoré de Balzac
“Once you’ve read a book that’s important to you, you carry a piece of it with you.” —Louis L’Amour
“There’s more treasure in books than in all the pirate loot on Treasure Island.” -Walt Disney
“My alma mater consisted of books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading just satisfying my curiosity.” – Malcolm X
“Read the best books first, otherwise you may not have a chance to read them.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Books serve to show a man that his original thoughts are not so new after all.” -Abraham Lincoln
“Once you learn to read, you will be free forever.” – Frederick Douglass
“Those who don’t read good books are no better than those who don’t.” -Mark Twain
“A book is a gift to be opened again and again.” – Garrison Keillor
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable pronounced is a spark.” -Victor Hugo
“I think books are like people, in the sense that they show up in your life when you need them most.” -Emma Thompson
“Rainy days are best spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.” – Bill Watterson
“If you don’t like reading, you haven’t found the right book.” -JK Rowling
“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that furnishes a house so beautifully.” —Henry Ward Beecher
“Books break the bounds of time, proof that people can perform magic.” – Karl Sagan
“For me, reading means spending time with a friend.” —Gary Paulsen
“We read to know we are not alone.” – William Nicholson
“Read on. It’s one of the most wonderful adventures one can experience.” – Lloyd Alexander
“Books are the mirrors of the soul.” -Virginia Woolf
“Books and doors are the same. You open it and walk through it into another world.” – Jeanette Winterson
“What I love most about reading is that it gives you the opportunity to reach higher levels. And keep climbing.” — Oprah Winfrey
“Most things are learned by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading sets you free.” – Paul Rand
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” – Joseph Addison
“Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.” – Lisa See
“Reading all good books is like talking to the best minds of centuries past.” – René Descartes
“I always imagined that paradise would be some kind of library.” —Jorge Luis Borges
“Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, as a duty. It should be offered as a gift.” – Kate DiCamillo
“I don’t read a book; I’m having a conversation with the author.” — Elbert Hubbard
“Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens that lets in more light.” – Vera Nazarian
“Reading gives us a place to go when we need to stay where we are.” – Mason Cooley
“Books should go where they are most valued and not just gather dust on a forgotten shelf, don’t you agree?” – Christoph Paolini
“Putting a good book down can be almost impossible.” -Unknown
“Reading has been my favorite pastime all my life. It’s not the most social pastime.” -Audrey Hepburn
“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.” – George RR Martin
“I read a book one day and my whole life changed.” – Orhan Pamuk
“Reading is an act of civilization; It is one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the mind’s free raw material and builds castles of possibility.” – Ben Okri
“Reading – the best condition yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.” – William Styron
“I feel the need to read. It’s a loss for a man not to have grown up among books.” -Abraham Lincoln
“Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out.” – Pam Allyn
“Today a reader tomorrow a guide.” – Margaret Fuller
“I am a part of everything I have read.” -Theodore Roosevelt
“A parent or a teacher has only his life; a good book can teach forever.” —Louis L’Amour
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