Top 500 Reading Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “The mere brute pleasure of reading – the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.”

— Lord Chesterfield

452. “Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

453. “There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.”

— Mason Cooley

454. “I don’t want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.”

— Willa Cather

455. “I tend not to read or watch Science Fiction, particularly not comedy Science Fiction. The point is that if it’s less good than what I do, there’s no point in reading it, if it’s better than what I do it makes me depressed.”

— Douglas Adams

456. “The world belongs to those who read.”

— Rick Holland

457. “Hikayatin mo lahat ng kakilala mo na magkaroon ng kahit isa man lang paboritong libro sa buhay nila. Dahil wala nang mas kawawa pa sa mga taong literado pero hindi nagbabasa.”

— Bob Ong

458. “That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.”

— Emily Dickinson

459. “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

— Benjamin Franklin

460. “In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.”

— C. S. Lewis

461. “The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.”

— C. S. Lewis

462. “Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.”

— Aldous Huxley

463. “All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.”

— Robert Frost

464. “Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.”

— Ezra Pound

465. “One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”

— George W. Bush

466. “A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”

— Mark Twain

467. “Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math and provides students with the skills to creatively solve problems.”

— Michelle Obama

468. “Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you.”

— Robin S. Sharma

469. “What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.”

— E. M. Forster

470. “Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.”

— Ezra Pound

471. “Reading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.”

— Bill Watterson

472. “I’m always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I’ll always be in supply.”

— Ernest Hemingway

473. “A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.”

— Abraham Lincoln

474. “I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.”

— T. S. Eliot

475. “If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.”

— Abraham Lincoln

476. “Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.”

— Swami Vivekananda

477. “He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.”

— Bob Dylan

478. “In reading, one should notice and fondle details.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

479. “I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”

— Bill Gates

480. “Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.”

— Saul Bellow

481. “Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don’t care for spill orange soda all over themselves.”

— Lemony Snicket

482. “I love reading – inspirational books, leadership books, biographies. I exercise a lot and put on my audio book. Even If you would offer me a million dollars for my iPod I wouldn’t give it to you, because I have some great things on it.”

— Robin S. Sharma

483. “Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity?”

— Rabindranath Tagore

484. “It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best. And it is not possible to read over many on the same subject without a great deal of loss of precious time.”

— Richard Baxter

485. “But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.”

— George R.R. Martin

486. “He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.”

— John Milton

487. “When I want to read a novel, I write one.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

488. “People don’t expect too much from literature. They just want to know they’re not alone with being confused.”

— Jonathan Ames

489. “Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

490. “A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...”

— Vladimir Nabokov

491. “We must not pay attention just to reading and studying; rather, we should ask if we are open before the Lord. If we do not have an unveiled face, the glory of the Lord will not shine on us. If our heart is not open to God, God cannot give us any light.”

— Watchman Nee

492. “Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.”

— Francis Bacon

493. “Digital reading will completely take over. It’s lightweight and it’s fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.”

— Bill Gates

494. “Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they’re gonna spend half an hour reading, they want some entertainment and a sense of achievement. So that’s what I give them. That’s all I’m trying to do. Is that really so wrong?”

— James Patterson

495. “I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.”

— Terry Pratchett

496. “Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

497. “I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I’m not a complete idiot at this time.”

— Emilie Autumn

498. “To justify being listened to, I try to be as well informed as I can. Hence, the travel. Reading is good too. Reading gets you part way there, and I do read pretty voraciously for a guy who’s trying to write so much.”

— Henry Rollins

499. “True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon pure and heroic action.”

— Swami Vivekananda

500. “I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I’ve read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it’s the same.”

— Steven Wright