Top 500 Reading Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.”

— Gwendolyn Brooks

302. “I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.”

— Muriel Barbery

303. “Margarine? That’s not food. I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter? I can. If you’re planning on using margarine in anything, you can stop reading now, because I won’t be able to help you.”

— Anthony Bourdain

304. “My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.”

— Mary Shelley

305. “Secrets of Closing the Sale, is essential reading. Ziglar tells us that selling and closing are not mysteries to be solved; instead they are as tangible as when his wife up-sold him on a new house.”

— Zig Ziglar

306. “Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins.”

— Rosanne Cash

307. “I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.”

— Rihanna

308. “You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”

— Annie Proulx

309. “Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head.”

— Paul Auster

310. “When you read with your child, you show them that reading is important, but you also show them they’re important – that they are so important to you that you will spend 20 minutes a day with your arm around them.”

— Laura Bush

311. “A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.”

— Marcus Garvey

312. “Good books are the warehouses of ideas.”

— H. G. Wells

313. “She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she’d checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.”

— Nicholas Sparks

314. “We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.”

— Quintilian

315. “I’m wondering what to read next.”

— Roald Dahl

316. “We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.”

— Roberto Bolaño

317. “Take Time Out. It’s not a real vacation if you’re reading email or calling in for messages.”

— Randy Pausch

318. “A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”

— Robertson Davies

319. “Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare’s plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters...”

— C. S. Lewis

320. “I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.”

— Neil Gaiman

321. “It is good from time to time to recall all those big and little reasons why you wanted to quit smoking in the first place. Reading this blog once in a while might also be helpful.”

— Zig Ziglar

322. “Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime.”

— William Blake

323. “It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn’t want to move around very much.”

— Brandon Sanderson

324. “I grew up kissing books and bread.”

— Salman Rushdie

325. “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

326. “He does not write at all whose poems no man reads.”

— Marcus Aurelius

327. “Learn as much by writing as by reading.”

— Lord Acton

328. “The Bible does not thrill; the Bible nourishes. Give time to the reading of the Bible and the recreating effect is as real as that of fresh air physically.”

— Oswald Chambers

329. “When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”

— Maya Angelou

330. “You can’t develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

331. “Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile.”

— Laura Bush

332. “Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean a lot to me, just interesting, so I both embrace and attack the ideas because I found them, well, delightful.”

— Nikki Giovanni

333. “That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

334. “Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.”

— Ernest Hemingway

335. “I’m very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.”

— Johnny Cash

336. “Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.”

— Walt Whitman

337. “You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.”

— Dr. Seuss

338. “What are you reading for?”

— Bill Hicks

339. “The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.”

— Markus Zusak

340. “When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.”

— W. E. B. Du Bois

341. “I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading.”

— Charles Barkley

342. “Reading the morning newspaper is the realist’s morning prayer.”

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

343. “What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness my father was in Porbandar. There every evening he used to listen to the Ramayana.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

344. “When you sell a man a book, you don’t sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life.”

— Christopher Morley

345. “This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if she had never gotten dressed at all this book would never have been written.”

— Groucho Marx

346. “Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.”

— John Milton

347. “For people who are readers, reading is important to them.”

— Jeff Bezos

348. “Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”

— Alain de Botton

349. “You only have to read the lines of scribbly black and everything shines.”

— Syd Barrett

350. “I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn’t have. And books you have a chance to grow as a human being after reading them.”

— Megan Fox