Inspiring Quotes about the Joy of Reading Books

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

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

Books are a uniquely portable magic. – Stephen King

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. – Joseph Addison

A house without books is like a room without windows. – Horace Mann

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

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

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

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

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. – Frederick Douglass

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. – Mortimer J. Adler

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

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. – Margaret Fuller

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies. – Andre Maurois

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. – Mark Twain

Inspiring Quotes about the Joy of Reading Books part 2

Reading is dreaming with open eyes. – Anissa Trisdianty

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

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams and more reading helped me make my dreams come true. – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read. – Benjamin Franklin

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. – Angela Carter

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

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

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

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. – James Bryce

Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. – Plato

You know the meaning of a word by the company it keeps. – John Ciardi

A book is a gift you can open again and again. – Garrison Keillor

Books are like a treasure hunt for the mind. – Emily Dickinson

Books are loaded weapons in the house next door. – Ray Bradbury

Reading is escaped to reality. – Stephen King

The world belongs to those who read. – Rick Holland

To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one. – Chinese Proverb

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

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

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. – Jesse Lee Bennett

Wherever I am, if I’ve got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy. – J.K. Rowling

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. – Isadora Duncan

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. – Mary Ellen Chase

Reading is traveling without moving an inch. – Unknown

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. – Mary Schmich

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

Books are uniquely portable magic. – Stephen King

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

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