Inspirational Quotes And Sayings About Reading Books

“When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes.” 
— Erasmus

“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.” 
— Philip Pullman

“If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads.” 
— Sherman Alexie

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“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

“You should never read just for “enjoyment.” Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends’ insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick “hard books.” Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god’s sake, don’t let me ever hear you say, “I can’t read fiction. I only have time for the truth.” Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of “literature”? That means fiction, too, stupid.”  
— John Waters
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”  
— Ernest Hemingway

“What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.”
 — Anne Lamott

“I am simply a ‘book drunkard.’ Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.” 
— L.M. Montgomery

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.” 
— Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler)

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
— Franz Kafka

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” 
— Frederick Douglass

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

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

“There are many little ways to enlarge your world.  Love of books is the best of all.” 
— Jacqueline Kennedy

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
— Margaret Fuller

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

“There are worse crimes than burning books.  One of them is not reading them.” 
— Ray Bradbury

“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
— Edmund Burke

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” 
— Descartes

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
— Richard Steele