Top 500 Reading Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

452. “I shall remain on Mars and read a book.”

— Ray Bradbury

453. “I’m always writing – its what I like to do. But when I’m not writing, I’m reading.”

— Michael Scott

454. “The mere brute pleasure of reading – the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.”

— Lord Chesterfield

455. “The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”

— Katherine Mansfield

456. “The secret to speed-reading is moving your lips faster.”

— Charles M. Schulz

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

— Willa Cather

460. “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

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

— Rick Holland

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— C. S. Lewis

464. “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

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

— Robert Frost

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

— George W. Bush

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

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Mark Twain

469. “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

470. “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

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

— Ezra Pound

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

— Robin S. Sharma

473. “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

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

— Bill Watterson

475. “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

476. “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

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

— T. S. Eliot

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Bob Dylan

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. “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

482. “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

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

485. “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

486. “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

487. “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

488. “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

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

— John Milton

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

— Jonathan Ames

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Arthur C. Clarke

493. “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

494. “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

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

— Bill Gates

497. “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

498. “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

499. “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

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