Top 25 Quotes About Books And Reading (2024 Update)

1. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

— Margaret Fuller

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2. “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

— Ernest Hemingway

3. “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

— Haruki Murakami

4. “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

5. “So many books, so little time.”

— Frank Zappa

6. “Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”

— Stephen King

7. “A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”

— George R.R. Martin

8. “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”

— Stephen King

9. “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”

— Lemony Snicket

10. “I cannot live without books.”

— Thomas Jefferson

11. “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”

— Stephen King

12. “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”

— Groucho Marx

13. “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”

— Francis Bacon

14. “I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”

— C. S. Lewis

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

— John Locke

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16. “So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.”

— Roald Dahl

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

— Diane Duane

18. “I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”

— Oscar Wilde

19. “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”

— Mark Twain

20. “My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”

— Malcolm X

21. “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”

— Jane Smiley

22. “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading. How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book.”

— Jane Austen

23. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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24. “In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn’t read all the time — none, zero.”

— Charlie Munger

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25. “Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.”

— Charlie Munger

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