Welcome to our page dedicated to Reading Quotes, where we celebrate the profound wisdom, insights, and inspiration that can be found within the pages of books. Reading is not just a pastime; it’s a journey that takes us to distant worlds, introduces us to fascinating characters, and allows us to explore the depths of human imagination. Whether you’re an avid reader or someone looking for a little literary motivation, this page is here to share a collection of thought-provoking quotes that capture the essence of reading.
Below, you will find a curated selection of quotes on the topic of reading. Feel free to use these quotes for your personal inspiration, share them with fellow book enthusiasts, or add your creative touch by placing them on images or enhancing them with stylish fonts. Join us on this literary adventure as we delve into the power of words and the magic of books. Stay tuned for a diverse range of insights and wisdom from the world of literature, because as we all know, There is no friend as loyal as a book – Ernest Hemingway.
I’m bad at baking. I’m bad at letting go of things. I’m probably bad at reading. Heidi Klum
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader’s imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book. Anthony Browne
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. Henry David Thoreau
We do not talk – we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. Henry Miller
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. Luciano Pavarotti
I was reading some books by Michel Houellebecq, and the first thing that comes to mind is that they’re really funny, all the ways they describe the most depressing things. Gaspar Noe
When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn’t worth reading. Billy Collins
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. Maya Angelou
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Joseph Addison
I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage. Arthur Schopenhauer
My favorite room in my house is my bedroom; my private space where I can go to do my reading or listen to music. Shirley Ballas
A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who’s behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off. M. J. Rose
What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man’s soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper. Charles Bukowski
He that loves reading has everything within his reach. William Godwin
Learn as much by writing as by reading. John Dalberg-Acton
My mother was right: When you’ve got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust. Jane Birkin
When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read history books, you are reading about events, but the Bible is not an event. So, when you are reading the Holy Spirit, you are supposed to be carried along by it. T. B. Joshua
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. Ben Okri
The relentless study of the Word of God is how God sanctifies and protects the pastor. When you’re just opening your iPad and reading somebody else’s sermon, you’ve never been exposed to the sanctifying work of the Word. John MacArthur
I grew up reading science fiction. Jeff Bezos
I use a system called Vector Green Reading, which applies science to the green reads. Bryson DeChambeau
There is hardly a pioneer’s hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin. Alexis de Tocqueville
There’s a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean. Carrie Underwood
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me. Kate Beckinsale
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. Thomas Jefferson
You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people. Zig Ziglar
My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing. Milla Jovovich
When you look at a city, it’s like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it. Hugh Newell Jacobsen
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book – I’ll waste no time reading it. Moses Hadas
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. Jean Rhys
A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact. Marcus Garvey
I was reading a book… ‘the history of glue’ – I couldn’t put it down. Tim Vine
I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there’s a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment. Raul Julia
I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that. Gillian Anderson
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve. Montesquieu
I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I’m annoying, and a phony. Anne Lamott
There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government. Bruce Schneier
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. Logan Pearsall Smith
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings. W. E. B. Du Bois
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. Thomas Hardy
My cottage is on Lake Huron and it’s always nice to have the chance to get away and hear the waves crashing while reading a good book. Tessa Virtue
There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that’s important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55. Robert Cormier
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. Francis Bacon
Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading – even browsing – an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin. James Gleick
All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading… freedom struggles and so on. Indira Gandhi
Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while. Malorie Blackman
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. Horace Mann
The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that’s powerful. Taylor Swift
My mom used to tell me stories at night, read books to me – and I read ’em over and over and over again. And you know what I learned from that? I went back and looked at everything – Why do I like reading the same stories over and over and over again? What, was I some kind of nincompoop? No – the narrative gave me connection with my mom. Peter Guber
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. George Bernard Shaw
Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it? Trai Byers
It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer. George Muller
Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. G. M. Trevelyan
Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty. Colin Powell
Fluency is the developmental process that connects decoding with everything we know about words to make the meaning of the text come to life. Fluency is a wonderful bridge to comprehension and to a life-long love of reading. Maryanne Wolf
I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face. Rodney Dangerfield
I remember back in the 1960s – late ’50s, really – reading a comic book called ‘Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Story.’ Fourteen pages. It sold for 10 cents. And this little book inspired me to attend non-violence workshops, to study about Gandhi, about Thoreau, to study Martin Luther King, Jr., to study civil disobedience. John Lewis
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. John Ruskin
Reading allows me to recharge my batteries. Rahul Dravid
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. Rene Descartes
I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away. Henry Fonda
I can’t put this down. I’m reading it in Spanish but I am still having English lessons. It is a motivational book about basketball legend Michael Jordan. His determination was inspiring. It helps me focus and drives me on. Bojan Krkic
I don’t like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people. I love my home and staying in bed and watching ‘Dancing With the Stars’ or reading a Danielle Steel novel. Britney Spears
Humans aren’t as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were ‘reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.’ Neil deGrasse Tyson
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. Oscar Wilde
Any time women come together with a collective intention, it’s a powerful thing. Whether it’s sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens. Phylicia Rashad
The experience of reading a printed comic book will never change, but now, thanks to the digital age, there are many different ways to enjoy the same story. Digital comic books, of course, can be interactive in many different ways, allowing the reader to feel like a participant in the story. Stan Lee
I’m tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading. C. S. Lewis
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God. George Washington Carver
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. Thornton Wilder
But when I lived as a monk, solitude is often spoken of as a strength. And so the first thing I’d recommend is finding one thing that you can do every single day that brings you joy. It may be reading a book you love. It may be looking at a beautiful piece of art. Jay Shetty
I don’t read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. Christopher Morley
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it. Groucho Marx
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. Pablo Neruda
Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life. Charles de Gaulle
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Antonin Artaud
I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we’ve factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it’s more important that you ask the question ‘why.’ Killer Mike
If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you’ve created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there’s no conflict, there are no stories worth telling – or reading! Veronica Roth
I’m very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television. Johnny Cash
I struggle with reading a bit. I’m slightly dyslexic, so reading takes me quite a while, and in general, I’m not a big book reader at all. And something like ‘Game of Thrones’ seems very daunting to me! Thomas Brodie-Sangster
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. Elizabeth Hardwick
Begin each day with private reading of the Word and prayer. Jim Elliot
Look at this generation, with all of its electronic devices and multitasking. I will confidently predict less success than Warren, who just focused on reading. Charlie Munger
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. Mark Haddon
Tinder – man, what’s that all about? Tinder, where you’re just, like, shopping for a human being. Reading the stats like ‘Mortal Kombat.’ You’re like, ‘Oh, he’s got six arms, and he’s only got the two, so I’ll probably go with the six arms.’ I don’t want to do that with human beings. Joe Gilgun
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. John Locke
My advice is this. For Christ’s sake, don’t write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books. Terry Pratchett
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. Jorge Luis Borges
‘The Sun Also Rises’ by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it. Elizabeth Olsen
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. Ramakrishna
Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. Mary Schmich
Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history. David Chang
The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading. David Bailey
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. Thomas Merton
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. Ray Bradbury
I learned a few years ago that balance is the key to a happy and successful life, and a huge part of achieving that balance is to instill rituals into your everyday life – a nutritious balanced diet, daily exercise, time for yourself through meditation, reading, journaling, yoga, daily reflection, and setting goals. Gretchen Bleiler
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. Will Rogers
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. Steven Wright
But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy. Ho Chi Minh
