Books are important for the mind, heart and soul. But don't take our word for it: these reading quotes speak for themselves.
Von Stefanie Hargreaves
The power that can be found between the pages of a book is truly impressive. And these 50 inspirational quotes about books and reading should remind you of that. As author Anna Quindeln says: “Books are the plane, the train and the road. You are the goal and the way. Are you at home.
"Today a reader, tomorrow a guide." —Margaret Fuller
"Word for word for word is power." —Margaret Atwood
"One look at a book and you hear someone else's voice, maybe someone who died 1,000 years ago. Reading is time travel." – Carl Sagan
"Show me a family of readers and I'll show you the people who make the world go around." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"A book is a garden, an orchard, a shop, a party, indeed, a company, a guide, a variety of guides." Charles Baudelaire
“Looking back, I am again so impressed with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today and trying to make sense of myself in the world, I would do it again by reading, perhaps as I do "I Did It When I Was Young." - Maya Angelou
"Reading should not be presented to children as a task, as a duty. It should be offered as a gift." —Kate DiCamillo
"I believe that books are like people in the sense that they appear in your life when you need them most." -Emma Thompson
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books we weren't allowed to read at school that I found out that you can be crazy and happy and have a good life without being like everyone else." - John Wasser
"Books are unique wearable magic." -Stephen King
"Books are mirrors: you only see what's already inside you." -Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Think before you speak. Read before thinking. – Fran Lebowitz
"Let's be sensible and add an eighth day of the week devoted exclusively to reading." - Lena Dunham
"If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book." -J.K. Rowling
"I can feel infinitely alive when I'm lying on the couch reading a book." -Benedict Cumberbatch
"Some books set us free and some books set us free." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Writing and reading reduce our sense of isolation. They deepen, widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers shake our heads with the accuracy of their prose and their truths and even make us laugh at ourselves or the life, our buoyancy restored We can dance with the absurdity of life, or at least clap our hands instead of being crushed by it over and over again It's like singing on a ship during a terrible storm at sea You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and moods of the people on this common ship.” –Anne Lamott
"We tell stories for a living." - Joan Didion
"Books and doors are the same. You open them and you're in another world." — Jeanette Winterson
"A good one would pull me out of me and then put me back in, now huge and restless with the attack." —David Sedaris
"Let's face it, books are better than anything else. If we played the Cultural Fantasy Boxing League and Books played fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then Books would win almost every time. " -Nick Hornby
We read to know that we are not alone. -CS Lewis
“If you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the becoming, the existence of music. , the book naturally helps to create you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temperament of your soul. — Ursula K. Le Guin
"It's very difficult to be alone in a world of words for very long. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have the language, and it will find you and wrap you in its little syllables, and suddenly there's a story. "For Life" – Naomi Shihab Nye
"Read a lot. Expect something big, something that elevates or deepens a book. A book that isn't worth rereading isn't worth reading." – Susan Sontag
"Do books 'happen' to you? If you don't answer 'yes' to that question, I don't know how to talk to you." -Haruki Murakami
"A story can always be torn apart while it's in a book on a shelf, and decades after we've read it twenty times, it can open us to new truth through a cut or a caress." - Andre Dubus
"Once you learn to read, you will be free forever." – Frederick Douglass
"Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and transmit values from generation to generation. Books save lives." — Laurie Anderson
“Reading fiction is important. It is an important means of imagining a life that is not our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex plots expands our brain beyond 140 characters of fragments, thinking in sounds and staying in the world of a novel gives us the ability to be calm and alone, two skills that disappear faster than the ice caps." - Ann Patchett
"Both reading and writing are lifelong experiences during which we, as we encounter certain words, are persuaded by them to direct the mind and heart to presence, the power of imagination." - Eudora Welty
A room without books is like a body without a soul. – Cicero
"Reading all the good books is like talking to the best minds of past centuries." - Rene Descartes
"That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet." – Jhumpa Lahiri
“I love the way each book, each book, is its own journey. You open it and walk away..." - Sharon Creech
"Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in putting yourself in someone else's shoes for a while." -Malorie Blackman
“Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we are someone else and shatters the illusion that we are permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we love them." - George Saunders
"A great book should leave you with a lot of experience and a little exhausted by the end. You live several lives while reading it." – William Styron
"I think a large part of the purpose of serious novels is to give the reader, who, like all of us, is isolated in his own skull, imaginative access to other selves." –David Foster Wallace
"Reading is an escape, and the opposite of an escape; it's a way to get in touch with reality after a day of thinking, and it's a way to get in touch with someone else's imagination after a very real day. " -Nora Ephron
“Reading makes all of us immigrants. It takes us far from home, but more importantly, it finds us a home anywhere.” –Jean Rhys
“Surely salvation is one of the reasons I read. Reading and writing has always pulled me out of the darkest experiences of my life. The stories gave me a place to get lost. You allowed me to remember. You allowed me to remember, to forget. They allowed me to imagine other endings and better possible worlds." - Roxana Gay
"You think your pain and agony are unparalleled in world history, but then you read it. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the same things that connected me to every other person alive, who has ever been. cheers." -James Baldwin
"Reading is important. If you can read, then the whole world is open to you." -Barack Obama
"It's part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not alone and isolated from anyone. You belong." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
“We don't need hit-and-miss lists, pros and cons tables: we need books, time and silence. You won't be forgotten so quickly, but once upon a time.” – Philipp Pullmann
"Books may be the only true magic." – Alice Hoffmann
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