51 Quotes About Reading That Will Soothe Your Book-Loving Soul

51 quotes

"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." - Anne Lamott

“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”

— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com

Tagged: Reading, Books, Literature

“Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that da…”

— Betty Smith, amazon.com

Tagged: Books, Reading, Poetry, Adventure

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”

— Annie Dillard, amazon.com

Tagged: Books, Reading, Living, Life

“He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Reading, Books, Words

“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”

— George R.R. Martin, amazon.com

Tagged: Books, Reading, Intelligence, Brain

“That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.”

— Mary Ann Shaffer, amazon.com

Tagged: Books, Reading, Entertainment

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

— Jane Austen, amazon.com

Tagged: Books, Reading, stupidity

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has co…”

— Alan Bennett, amazon.com

Tagged: Reading, Books, Thoughts, Feelings

“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them, to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”

— Thomas Babington Macaulay, amazon.com

Tagged: Reading, Books, dead, Unreal

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.”

— Tahereh Mafi, amazon.com

Tagged: Books, Reading, Relationships, characters

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”

— Paul Auster, amazon.com

Tagged: Reading, Books, Escape, calming

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

— William Styron, amazon.com

Tagged: Reading, Books, Living, Life

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”

— Stephen King, amazon.com

Tagged: Books, Reading, Magic

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”

— Dr. Seuss, amazon.com

Tagged: Reading, Books, Learning, Success

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”

— George R.R. Martin, amazon.com

Tagged: Reading, Books, Living, Life

“Books, just like people, a destiny.”

— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com

Tagged: Books, Reading, Destiny

“We read to know we're not alone.”

— William Nicholson, amazon.com

Tagged: Reading, Books, Alone

“This much I'm certain of: it doesn't happen immediately. You'll finish [the book] and that will be that, until a moment will come, maybe in a month, maybe a year, maybe even several years. You'll be sick or feeling troubled or deeply in love or quietly uncertain or even content for the first time in…”

— Mark Z Danielewski, amazon.com

Tagged: Reading, Books, Perspective

“We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.”

— Jonathan Gottschall, amazon.com

Tagged: Dreams, fiction, Reading, Sleep, Storytelling

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, csmonitor.com

Tagged: Literature, Loneliness, Art

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”

— Anna Quindlen, amazon.com

Tagged: Books, Reading, Journey, destination, Home