25 Amazing Inspirational Quotes for Readers

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

– Lemony Snicket

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

– Harper Lee

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

– Mark Twain

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

– Ray Bradbury

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

– Fran Lebowitz

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

– Diane Duane

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”

– Stephen King

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

– Orhan Pamuk

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

– Logan Pearsall Smith

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

– Margaret Fuller

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

– Saul Bellow

“A good book is an event in my life.”

– Stendhal

“The world was hers for the reading.”

– Betty Smith

“There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away”

– Emily Dickinson

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

– Joseph Brodsky

“Reading for me, is spending time with a friend.”

– Gary Paulsen

“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”

– Mortimer J. Adler

“Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.”

– Holbrook Jackson

“I guess there are never enough books.”

– John Steinbeck

“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”

– J.K. Rowling

“Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.”

– Rainer Maria Rilke

“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”

– Emilie Buchwald

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

– Garrison Keillor

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”

– Victor Hugo