30 Quotes for Readers to fall in love with reading again

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”

– Dr. Seuss

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”

– Harper Lee

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”

– Stephen King

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”

– Lemony Snicket

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”

– Orhan Pamuk

“Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.”

– Jim Rohn

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”

– Logan Pearsall Smith

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”

– C.S. Lewis

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

– Margaret Fuller

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”

– Garrison Keillor

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”

– Saul Bellow

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”

– Groucho Marx

“A good book is an event in my life.”

– Stendhal

“‘Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read.”

– Mark Twain

“Reading brings us unknown friends”

– Honoré de Balzac

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

– Ray Bradbury

“The world was hers for the reading.”

– Betty Smith

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”

– Roald Dahl

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

– Fran Lebowitz

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”

– Louis L’Amour

“Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.”

– Lena Dunham

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”

– Fernando Pessoa

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.”

– Descartes

“No. I can survive well enough on my own—if given the proper reading material.”

– Sarah J. Maas

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”

– Mortimer J. Adler

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”

– Walt Disney

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”

– Diane Duane

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.”

– Ezra Pound