160 Quotes About Books & Reading
Books have the power to transport us to new worlds and different times, but they can also take us back to the important moments in our own lives. Many of us have special memories of the books that have inspired us, and have learned the profound effect that reading the right book can have at the right moment
Quotes About Books
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. To read is to voyage through time.
- If you don’t like reading, you haven’t found the right book. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
- A half-read book is a half-finished love affair. A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end.
Quotes About Reading
Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
- Reading brings us unknown friends. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
- Reading is an act of civilization; it’s one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.
- Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.
The Best Literary Quotes
Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
- If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
- Ray Bradbury, Farenheit 451
- Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read to live.
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