Book Quotes that Celebrate the Joy of Reading

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. – Dr. Seuss

A room without books is like a body without a soul. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Reading gives us somewhere to go when we have to stay where we are. – Mason Cooley

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. – George R.R. Martin

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. – C.S. Lewis

There is no friend as loyal as a book. – Ernest Hemingway

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. – Margaret Fuller

Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out. – Pam Allyn

Books are a uniquely portable magic. – Stephen King

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

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! – Jane Austen

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. – Rene Descartes

When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. – Julian Barnes

The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. – Dr. Seuss

Book Quotes that Celebrate the Joy of Reading part 2

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

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul. – Joyce Carol Oates

Books were my pass to personal freedom. – Oprah Winfrey

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. – Rene Descartes

Books are a uniquely portable magic. – Stephen King

Reading is my favorite escape and my favorite way to live other lives. – Anne Lamott

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. – Harper Lee

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. – George R.R. Martin

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this. – Dave Eggers

A book is a dream that you hold in your hand. – Neil Gaiman

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. – William Styron

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. – Pablo Neruda

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. – Richard Steele

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. – Jorge Luis Borges

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. – Rene Descartes

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. – Anna Quindlen

There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all. – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. – Ray Bradbury

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. – Jim Rohn

There is no friend as loyal as a book. – Ernest Hemingway

A book is a device to ignite the imagination. – Alan Bennett

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don’t realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie. – Quentin Tarantino

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. – Charles W. Eliot

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. – Henry David Thoreau

I cannot live without books. – Thomas Jefferson

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries. – Rene Descartes

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back. – John Green

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book. – J.K. Rowling

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive. – James Baldwin

We read to know we’re not alone. – William Nicholson

When I read, I forget myself, I vanish completely from the world; I am suspended in space, I who never leave my corner, am everywhere, am nowhere, call me X. – Jean-Paul Sartre