Quotes About Reading

The following quotes about reading, some from celebrities and some anonymous, have been assembled from a selection found throughout the Internet.

• Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. - Author Unknown
• If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. - Emily Dickinson
• 'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Books are the carriers of civilization…They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print. - Barbara W. Tuchman
• You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. - Paul Sweeney
• It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful. - Vincent van Gogh
• Lord! When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and Earth in a book, a real book. - Christopher Morley

• I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. - Anna Quindlen
• If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are the banks. - Wendell Ford
• Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. - Margaret Fuller
• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch. - August Hare

• I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. - Groucho Marx
• Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books. - Jack Handy
• Classic—a book people praise and don’t read. - Mark Twain
• If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed. - Lily Tomlin
• Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. - Abraham Lincoln
• Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. - P. J. O'Rourke

• The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. - Alvin Toffler
• If you can read this, thank a teacher. - Anonymous

Quotes about reading all reinforce the importance of a good book and the time spent to enjoy it.

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