Top 500 Reading Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.”

— Billy Graham

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152. “If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”

— Frank Zappa

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153. “The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.”

— René Descartes

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154. “I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.”

— Shakira

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155. “A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.”

— Samuel Johnson

156. “There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.”

— Will Rogers

157. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They’re either speaking or preparing to speak. They’re filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people’s lives.”

— Stephen R. Covey

158. “Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It’s like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can’t stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.”

— Anne Lamott

159. “In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.”

— Anna Quindlen

160. “A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.”

— Lisa Kleypas

161. “Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.”

— Gilles Deleuze

162. “We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.”

— Judith Butler

163. “I guess there are never enough books.”

— John Steinbeck

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164. “Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.”

— Patrick Ness

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165. “Easy reading is damn hard writing.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

166. “It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”

— Horace Greeley

167. “Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren’t prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.”

— Stephen King

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168. “Easy writing makes hard reading.”

— Ernest Hemingway

169. “Literature is my Utopia.”

— Helen Keller

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170. “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

171. “I don’t want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they read and hear.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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172. “Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.”

— Louisa May Alcott

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173. “Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”

— Jane Austen

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174. “So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were ‘reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.’”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

175. “A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.”

— Jerry Seinfeld

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176. “Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.”

— Ben Carson

177. “Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.”

— Heinrich Heine

178. “I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.”

— Markus Zusak

179. “I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.”

— Steven Wright

180. “Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.”

— Nora Ephron

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181. “She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.”

— Dean Koontz

182. “Of all things, I liked books best.”

— Nikola Tesla

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183. “The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.”

— Neil Gaiman

184. “Books were my pass to personal freedom.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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185. “I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist – books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are.”

— Neil Gaiman

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186. “Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.”

— Voltaire

187. “Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.”

— Lloyd Alexander

188. “We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind.”

— Anna Quindlen

189. “Literature is news that stays news.”

— Ezra Pound

190. “This week I’ve been reading a lot and doing little work. That’s the way things ought to be. That’s surely the road to success.”

— Anne Frank

191. “To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.”

— André Gide

192. “The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life.”

— George R.R. Martin

193. “Write your own book instead of reading someone else’s book about success.”

— Herb Brooks

194. “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

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195. “Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.”

— Dylan Thomas

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196. “Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.”

— Mark Haddon

197. “It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I’m not working on ‘Harry Potter,’ then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book.”

— Emma Watson

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198. “Sit in a room and read – and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.”

— Joseph Campbell

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199. “True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.”

— Helen Keller

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200. “Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.”

— Maxim Gorky