55 Famous Quotes About The Importance of Reading

Reading is one of the best constructive habits that anyone can have. It has a huge positive impact in almost every aspect of our life. To know more about how important reading can be for you, you may read the article on Why Reading is so Important and get inspired to read more.

But if you just want to read the quotes about the importance of reading, then you are at the right page. These quotes will tell you how important reading has been for these great people and what reading can mean to you. Read and get inspired!

Here is a list of 55 famous quotes about the importance of reading that will keep you motivated to read:

He that loves reading has everything within his reach. – William Godwin

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. – Oscar Wilde

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

Books are a uniquely portable magic. – Stephen King

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

Sleep is good, he said, and books are better. – George R. R. Martin

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. – Voltaire

Think before you speak. Read before you think. – Fran Lebowitz

It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can. – Jane Hamilton

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. – Victor Hugo

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

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

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island. – Walt Disney

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. – Margaret Fuller

Reading brings us unknown friends – Honore de Balzac

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading. – David Bailey

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

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

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. – Lemony Snicket

Books break the shackles of time – proof that humans can work magic. – Carl Sagan

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. – Socrates

Reading for me, is spending time with a friend. – Gary Paulsen

What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright. – Gustave Flaubert

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. – Vera Nazarian

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. – Harold Kushner

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

You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing. – Anonymous

Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood. – John Green

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return. – Salman Rushdie

We lose ourselves in books. We find ourselves there too. – Anonymous

So many books, so little time. – Frank Zappa

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers. – Steven Spielberg

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach. – Roberto Bolaño

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

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his needs, is good for him. – Maya Angelou

One of the greatest gifts adults can give—to their offspring and to their society—is to read to children. – Carl Sagan

When you learn to read you will be born again…and you will never be quite so alone again. – Rumer Godden

We read to know we are not alone. – C.S. Lewis

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. – Elizabeth Hardwick

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. – Mary Wortley Montagu

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

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. – Confucius

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. – Harry S Truman

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. – Mark Twain

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books. – Roald Dahl

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

A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever. – Louis L’Amour

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything. – Tomie dePaola

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. – Kathleen Norris

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

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. – E.P. Whipple

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