FAMOUS QUOTES FROM AUTHORS ABOUT 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 reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin

“Reading brings us unknown friends.” – Honoré de Balzac

“Reading is dreaming with open eyes.” – Anissa Trisdianty

“The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.” – Albert Einstein

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

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

“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

“A reader lives many lives before he dies, the man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin

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

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” – Italo Calvino WELL DONE ON YOUR NEW JOB QUOTES

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King

“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

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.” – Caroline Gordon

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

“Books are a delightful society.” – Mark Twain

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.” – Desiderius Erasmus

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

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

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

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King

“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience, and the fruits of many inquiries.” – A.C. Grayling

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

“One must be selective with memory, with thoughts, with company. We must arrange our reading, treat it gently, honorably.” – Mary Oliver

“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