Top 100 Quotes About Books And Reading (2024 Update)
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51. “I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”

— J.K. Rowling

52. “My alma mater was books, a good library.”

— Malcolm X

53. “Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.”

— Tomie dePaola

54. “Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.”

— Lloyd Alexander

55. “We read books to find out who we are.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

56. “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”

— Charles William Eliot

57. “Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”

— Henry David Thoreau

58. “I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole new world in books. If you can’t afford to travel, you travel mentally through reading. You can see anything and go any place you want to in reading.”

— Michael Jackson

59. “So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”

— Roald Dahl

60. “You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”

— Dr. Seuss

61. “Read, read, read. Read everything.”

— William Faulkner

62. “Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.”

— Kate DiCamillo

63. “Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.”

— Anne Lamott

64. “What an astonishing thing a book is.”

— Carl Sagan

65. “Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”

— Harry S. Truman

66. “Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.”

— Swami Vivekananda

67. “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”

— Stephen King

68. “The difference between where you are today and where you'll be five years from now will be found in the quality of books you've read.”

— Jim Rohn

69. “You cannot open a book without learning something.”

— Confucius

70. “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Oscar Wilde

72. “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”

— René Descartes

73. “Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.”

— Jim Rohn

74. “Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.”

— Jim Rohn

75. “Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”

— Cassandra Clare

76. “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”

— Toni Morrison

77. “People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.”

— Bill Gates

78. “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

79. “Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you.”

— Barack Obama

80. “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”

— Mason Cooley

81. “It isn't what the book costs. It's what it will cost you if you don't read it.”

— Jim Rohn

82. “It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching - it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life.”

— Robin S. Sharma

83. “A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

84. “My love of books was all that saved me.”

— Robin S. Sharma

85. “Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.”

— Jeanette Winterson

86. “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

— Joseph Addison

87. “If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.”

— Roald Dahl

88. “Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.”

— Jim Rohn

89. “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”

— Frederick Douglass

90. “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”

— Fran Lebowitz

91. “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

— John Green

92. “I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.”

— J.D. Salinger

93. “I am a part of everything that I have read.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

94. “Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.”

— Jim Rohn

95. “A word after a word after a word is power.”

— Margaret Atwood

96. “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

97. “Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.”

— Jim Rohn

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Charlie Munger

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

— Charlie Munger